lego9vtrainfan Posted October 17, 2010 Posted October 17, 2010 Hi everyone, With the recent release of Railbricks #7, you may be wondering how to make the long smooth curves seen in the article by Steve Barile about his experiences making such a layout with Holger Matthes. Holger originally described this method in Railbricks #1, and as a long-time user of his idea in my own layouts, I thought I would make a short "how-to" video to share with everyone else: Although you need a lot of space (hence my layouts are only temporary), long curves really bring high speed trains to life, as I originally noted in my thread about my TGV, Eurostar, and ICE 3 MOCs. There you will also find videos of these high speed trains in action (including a few crashes ) , or you can check out my YouTube channel. Hope this helps, and let me know if you have any questions! Give it a shot on your next layout / at your next show! Cheers, LEGO9Vtrainfan Quote
Carefree_Dude Posted October 17, 2010 Posted October 17, 2010 does doing this damage the tracks at all? I don't want to break those little clips in the middle. Quote
lego9vtrainfan Posted October 17, 2010 Author Posted October 17, 2010 does doing this damage the tracks at all? I don't want to break those little clips in the middle. Good question -- after assembling and disassembling dozens of long curve layouts, I have never experienced any problems or seen any damage to my straight track or the clips. They are quite strong, and there is not much stress on them in the setup anyway. Good luck with your layout! LEGO9Vtrainfan Quote
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