@@Bricksie Replace Some of the 1x4 clear blue Tiles with 4 1X1 Clear blue Cheese slopes creating one large Wave you'll Be able to Collect so many 1X4 tiles back and create a cool looking wave 🌊 also you buried some highly valuable clear blue 1X2 Bricks under the Mountain 🗻 Just in case you go Looking for them in able 6 months
I wouldn't have changed the track for the old train check, in my world it would be the original maintenance shed and the train yard would have grown around it and modernised. But it's not my world it's yours so it looks good it's nice to have things that match.
To break up the dark grey in the harbour consider putting rogue plants on the edge of it. Pretty much any place has wildlife growing around the edge of things and adding this will add in a bit of detail, interest and colour, but also make it look less clean and clinical.
Hi Bricksie. The harbour and the train yard are looking great. The City is really taking shape beautifully as you lay down all the basics for future development. It's going to be the biggest issue and best city in the world! Well done Bricksie and Simon!
Winter is coming! I know it is still August, but I imagine it'll be snowing in Edmonton in 3 months. I believe you've said the Winter village will be going in the back left corner and I am excited to see the expanded village, mountain, and enormous ski hill. I imagine that one is going to take a really long time to put together. Have you started making plans and orders so you can get it set back up before the Christmas season? It will be so cool to see it as part of the city itself!
I have been to many shipyards and ports around the world. In Asian, and Singapore for sure, I always see how they will have plants, small trees, and even small yards with grass and flowers throughout the area, adding color to the area and breaking up all the drabness. Also, an outside break area for the workers would be a way to add color.
The yard layout looks pretty good. Lego track geometry doesn't lend itself well to a good yard structure so you can be kind limited. Try staging some trains in the yard and get a feel for how many cars fit on each branch and whatnot. That'll help you figure it out. Rail ties and ballast vary a LOT. Not just between old and new track, but any time they repair or re-ballast things can be different. I'd suggest having some of the ties in brown to add to the variation and visual interest. An older looking logging line with a siding in the countryside would look great and give you another place to park some cars. In the dock area rails are *often* not ballasted and are simply embedded directly into the concrete. So that area looks perfect.
I was a little bit leery of the green plate in the rail yard, but it really breaks up the gray and makes that whole corner look a lot cleaner. Once it is ballasted and you have trains and buildings, I think a grassy train yard will look just fine, even if they're normally just gravel.
Green in the rail yard was a great call! I think you could switch the one part of the harbour that’s on the far side of the rail yard over to green as well, will help get rid of the square corners.
In the train yard you should make some dead bushes or at least make it look slightly hard polluted just so it separates from the country side Maybe even just have some cut down trees at the end of the yard
Looks awesome! I'm once again amazed by just how many parts this city's construction is consuming... but in no way surprised after seeing what goes into the MILS plating and detailing ends of the process.
Uh Bricksie, I recommend going with brown color parts for the Train yard because I use to live near Industrial Train Yard type areas and they AREN'T covered in green grass like areas, it's more like Brownish Tan like meaning just dirt type areas with dried grass.
This is LEGOooo. I like the green and can add brownish detail on top in addition to the dark gray. Plus, I would have to order all new plate in brownish colours.
A few recommeded amendments. 1) Your breakwall (Rocks in the water to lighthouse), water should be shallow both side of the rocks not just your cove area. Recommed adding a few bricks of light colored plate to the harbor side of your break wall. 2) Your boat lauching ramp should not imediatly be deep water. Recommend adjusting 8 or so studs in the water to a ligher color detaling the ramp underwater and shallower water as a whole. 3) Cove area. Recommend a small rock sticking out (6 by 6 studs) to break up the open space. A seal basking in the sun would look good on this rock. A shipped crashed on this rock would also be interesting. City coming along nicely.
Unfortunate Simon can't work on the City for aahile! But we thank him for his service. Maybe in his last shifts he can go ahead and sort out all the bins and overflow so you have the parts to work on the city without the nitty grity of sorting. Would love to still see a video of you sorting tho !
I’ve seen people use a special program to allow trains to sense colour bricks so the train goes back and forth between the 2 points. That way you don’t have to rely on a complete loop track. Something like that might be useful for the train yard so you can have some movement with the trains going back and forth. The program can even be set up so trains stop at stations for a few seconds like they are picking up passengers. Not sure how complicated it is to set up. Maybe you can hire another part time staffer that’s good at programming.
I’ve seen someone else with the same situation with the old train she’s trying to put it in the lego city, and what he did was get like an end piece for the train track online, and they link perfectly. Just incase you don’t want to change the train shed build
You’ve inspired us today we took down all our trains put new batteries in them and built our track back up and have been having so much fun. Unfortunately our room is too small to have them out all the time but once in a while so much fun to crank them up!
It would be cool if you had a distribution center in the train yard with bays for tractor trailer trucks. They could also be delivering Lego to the downtown! Might be a neat spot for the Costco truck.
Definitely more space for train parking should it be needed in the future 7:20 - a shunter engine would be cool to move rolling stock around doesn’t need to be powered
Not sure about Canada but most train yards in the US are mostly gravel not grass maybe have the train yard done using a gravel technique you could add patches of grass as some would grow between the gravel
I can add that type of detail, but for now I went with green because I like the look of it and that is the plate colour that I currently have. It took over 1300 4x4 plates to MILS the plates alone. I love the way the black and gray pops off the green.
The updates to the train yard and harbor are amazing! I do have a question about the train line. Are there any places for the cargo trains to go? Like factories, refineries, etc. Somewhere for them to drop their cargo off. You mentioned building a mine, that could work as a spot for a cargo train to stop. Way down the line when you build the raised railroad, you could maybe add a logging camp in the mountains to go with the Logging Railway Train from the BDP (if you got it). There's no obligation to put those things in, though. No matter what, I say fill your city with the things you want in it! Adding the track and stuff would take up a lot of space.
You could add the new or old lego delivery truck to the container port either leaving or loading with all the mini lego boxes to add some colour, when you get around to story telling.
City is looking amazing!! Have you ever thought from afar there doesn’t seem to be enough sand visible in relation to the rest of the areas at the front of the city?
You need to put yellow and black saftey stripes near the edges of the tracks and water in the harbor for the figs safety so they dont fall somewhere theyre nit supposed to be
Replace Some of the 1X4 Clear Blue Tiles and Place 4 1X1 Clear Blue Cheese Slopes in a line to Create 1 Large Wave a problem solved No Trip to Lego Store Required Happy Building
In my opinion, you will have additional problems with the green 4x4 plates and it doesn’t look good. That’s part of why Lego is so cool, it’s superior fit and finish.
What about putting your engine shed and the 2 tracks leading into them at a 45 deg angle? Also, use some clear panels for skylights to bring more light below
Your Lego city looking good. Your rail yard look great and thinking the track that go to the engine shop. You could have that track have all the switch’s come off the this track to give you more yard space.
Ever seen a clean industrial area? Me nether. You need to break up the gray with potholes and oil spills and weeds growing through the cracks and around the edges
Rail fan here There is no siding in your train yard if an engine needs to move to the other side of the rail cars its hauling it can't The engine can connect to cars in the yard and pull them out onto the main loop but it will always be pushing the cars if you go around the loop clockwise if you want the engine to pull the cars and go around clockwise you will need to add a siding (preferably right next to the yard) so a engine can get on the siding pass the cars to get in front of them But other then that the yard looks pretty good keep up the good work
What if before you finish the mountain deeper Into the display, you added a switch track and had a section of straight track where a full train could be “waiting”, wouldn’t have to ever run but would be a way to have another train displayed
crains on the main trainstation that u upgraded today should be on other side where the sea is ? its more logical to be there to take cargo out/in from ships/train
Please please please turn your observation tower so it's looking into the yard itself rather than the yard entrance. Your staff in there need to see whats going on :)
Think if you use flower stem pieces bunched together would look like the overgrown grass you’d see at train yards, leading to a wheat field, going into a farm so produce can be easily transported and loaded on the trains to deliver to the city
Hiya Bricksie! Just a two cents worth observation. The red office under the crane...shouldn't that spot be for trucks/road vehicles? So the crane removes freight from train cars and transfers it to flat bed trucks/container trucks etc? It would be rare to find an office building under a gantry crane...🤔
Looks great. If you fence off the train yard how will cars get to the old station and your custom one. You could make a gate by the camping area on the trail?
is there a way to make the outer perimeter line "toggle" the switch track every time it passes a point after it? so it could automatically alternate between going through one route and the other?
wouldn't it be more proper having the gravel road removed and to reach the camp ground just travel under the mountain. im saying this cuz it would be closer to the campground and as the road comes out of the mountain you could take a turn and make a parking lot and on the other side take a turn and make a long road to the winter village sort of like a "T" from the mountain. and since you have such a big city maybe you could add a highway to the winter village and keep a sign saying "winter village 200m" and keep the surrounding area tan as undeveloped desert area with a gas stop and something else
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@@Bricksie Replace Some of the 1x4 clear blue Tiles with 4 1X1 Clear blue Cheese slopes creating one large Wave you'll Be able to Collect so many 1X4 tiles back and create a cool looking wave 🌊 also you buried some highly valuable clear blue 1X2 Bricks under the Mountain 🗻 Just in case you go Looking for them in able 6 months
Just a suggestion how about using tan instead of green for the train yard it would be something different and breaks up the massive expanse of green
The broken green plate could work as a base layer under the plating you use on the mountain. It might save parts that would get buried.
The light gray railroad tracks in the harbor area came out well. Nice color break.
I wouldn't have changed the track for the old train check, in my world it would be the original maintenance shed and the train yard would have grown around it and modernised. But it's not my world it's yours so it looks good it's nice to have things that match.
Trains!! My second love after Lego!! The train and boat yards look fantastic!
To break up the dark grey in the harbour consider putting rogue plants on the edge of it. Pretty much any place has wildlife growing around the edge of things and adding this will add in a bit of detail, interest and colour, but also make it look less clean and clinical.
Hi Bricksie.
The harbour and the train yard are looking great. The City is really taking shape beautifully as you lay down all the basics for future development. It's going to be the biggest issue and best city in the world!
Well done Bricksie and Simon!
Winter is coming!
I know it is still August, but I imagine it'll be snowing in Edmonton in 3 months. I believe you've said the Winter village will be going in the back left corner and I am excited to see the expanded village, mountain, and enormous ski hill. I imagine that one is going to take a really long time to put together. Have you started making plans and orders so you can get it set back up before the Christmas season? It will be so cool to see it as part of the city itself!
Gotta say...the cloud/sky backdrop still looking killer!
Hi Bricksie.
The harbour and the train yard are looking great! The City is really taking shape beautifully as you lay lldown all the
I have been to many shipyards and ports around the world. In Asian, and Singapore for sure, I always see how they will have plants, small trees, and even small yards with grass and flowers throughout the area, adding color to the area and breaking up all the drabness. Also, an outside break area for the workers would be a way to add color.
The yard layout looks pretty good. Lego track geometry doesn't lend itself well to a good yard structure so you can be kind limited. Try staging some trains in the yard and get a feel for how many cars fit on each branch and whatnot. That'll help you figure it out.
Rail ties and ballast vary a LOT. Not just between old and new track, but any time they repair or re-ballast things can be different. I'd suggest having some of the ties in brown to add to the variation and visual interest. An older looking logging line with a siding in the countryside would look great and give you another place to park some cars.
In the dock area rails are *often* not ballasted and are simply embedded directly into the concrete. So that area looks perfect.
I was a little bit leery of the green plate in the rail yard, but it really breaks up the gray and makes that whole corner look a lot cleaner. Once it is ballasted and you have trains and buildings, I think a grassy train yard will look just fine, even if they're normally just gravel.
I think I would have meshed in some browns with the green to further break up the green/gray sea of baseplates and make it pop even more.
Green in the rail yard was a great call! I think you could switch the one part of the harbour that’s on the far side of the rail yard over to green as well, will help get rid of the square corners.
In the train yard you should make some dead bushes or at least make it look slightly hard polluted just so it separates from the country side
Maybe even just have some cut down trees at the end of the yard
Hi
1x4 safety stripes around all the docks and train docks to add color around the platforms. Maybe some tie off pieces around the dock too
Looks awesome! I'm once again amazed by just how many parts this city's construction is consuming... but in no way surprised after seeing what goes into the MILS plating and detailing ends of the process.
Uh Bricksie, I recommend going with brown color parts for the Train yard because I use to live near Industrial Train Yard type areas and they AREN'T covered in green grass like areas, it's more like Brownish Tan like meaning just dirt type areas with dried grass.
This is LEGOooo. I like the green and can add brownish detail on top in addition to the dark gray. Plus, I would have to order all new plate in brownish colours.
@@Bricksie Funny how either way you'd have to deal with brittle bricks, haha!
A few recommeded amendments. 1) Your breakwall (Rocks in the water to lighthouse), water should be shallow both side of the rocks not just your cove area. Recommed adding a few bricks of light colored plate to the harbor side of your break wall. 2) Your boat lauching ramp should not imediatly be deep water. Recommend adjusting 8 or so studs in the water to a ligher color detaling the ramp underwater and shallower water as a whole. 3) Cove area. Recommend a small rock sticking out (6 by 6 studs) to break up the open space. A seal basking in the sun would look good on this rock. A shipped crashed on this rock would also be interesting. City coming along nicely.
Train yard?!?! Why would you need such a thing?!?! Clearly, you need a railyard.
You could put an abandoned train car In the blank corner in the train yard with wildlife around it!
Unfortunate Simon can't work on the City for aahile! But we thank him for his service. Maybe in his last shifts he can go ahead and sort out all the bins and overflow so you have the parts to work on the city without the nitty grity of sorting. Would love to still see a video of you sorting tho !
I’ve seen people use a special program to allow trains to sense colour bricks so the train goes back and forth between the 2 points. That way you don’t have to rely on a complete loop track. Something like that might be useful for the train yard so you can have some movement with the trains going back and forth. The program can even be set up so trains stop at stations for a few seconds like they are picking up passengers.
Not sure how complicated it is to set up. Maybe you can hire another part time staffer that’s good at programming.
I’ve seen someone else with the same situation with the old train she’s trying to put it in the lego city, and what he did was get like an end piece for the train track online, and they link perfectly. Just incase you don’t want to change the train shed build
The first step of recycling is reducing and the second is reusing. Don’t forget to reuse those “PAB wall” boxes before “recycling”!
You’ve inspired us today we took down all our trains put new batteries in them and built our track back up and have been having so much fun. Unfortunately our room is too small to have them out all the time but once in a while so much fun to crank them up!
Grant yourself even more room and put the dioramatables in your displayroom, so you get even more room for your city.
Some kinda forest between the train yard and the countryside would look good.
Its amazing how much you have worked on your city and how much white there stilll is. that just shows how big your city is, keep up the great work.
is it just me or is the brown track much better looking then the black , the brown pops and adds colour and resembles old sleepers
It would be cool if you had a distribution center in the train yard with bays for tractor trailer trucks. They could also be delivering Lego to the downtown! Might be a neat spot for the Costco truck.
Much love, Jordan.
Definitely more space for train parking should it be needed in the future 7:20 - a shunter engine would be cool to move rolling stock around doesn’t need to be powered
Ahh another day another bricksie video, enjoy everyone! 🎉
For your country side you should add a traditional farm and a field would really illustrate that its the country side
Not sure about Canada but most train yards in the US are mostly gravel not grass maybe have the train yard done using a gravel technique you could add patches of grass as some would grow between the gravel
I can add that type of detail, but for now I went with green because I like the look of it and that is the plate colour that I currently have. It took over 1300 4x4 plates to MILS the plates alone. I love the way the black and gray pops off the green.
The updates to the train yard and harbor are amazing!
I do have a question about the train line. Are there any places for the cargo trains to go? Like factories, refineries, etc. Somewhere for them to drop their cargo off. You mentioned building a mine, that could work as a spot for a cargo train to stop. Way down the line when you build the raised railroad, you could maybe add a logging camp in the mountains to go with the Logging Railway Train from the BDP (if you got it).
There's no obligation to put those things in, though. No matter what, I say fill your city with the things you want in it! Adding the track and stuff would take up a lot of space.
You could add the new or old lego delivery truck to the container port either leaving or loading with all the mini lego boxes to add some colour, when you get around to story telling.
A turn table would be cool they tend to be in most train stations. But from quick research not so much anymore
You should make the docks all brown like wood to break up the grey in the harbor
If you’re looking for inspiration why not look at a few pictures of rail yards? The city is looking good 👍🏻
If you put a plate then a tile on top of the track then cars can smoothly drive over and trains can go over.
City is looking amazing!! Have you ever thought from afar there doesn’t seem to be enough sand visible in relation to the rest of the areas at the front of the city?
You should combine 2 of the cargo trains to make it look like it's carrying a massive load.
I think if you put some flat circular parts 1x1 in the gaps between the rail road ties for weeds and dirt and such could add some pop of colors
You need to put yellow and black saftey stripes near the edges of the tracks and water in the harbor for the figs safety so they dont fall somewhere theyre nit supposed to be
Watcthing with toffee coffee train yard is looking 🍕
Replace Some of the 1X4 Clear Blue Tiles and Place 4 1X1 Clear Blue Cheese Slopes in a line to Create 1 Large Wave a problem solved No Trip to Lego Store Required Happy Building
Need a small fire-lit entrance to a tunnel at the top of the mountain, with Sam and Frodo at the entrance.
It would be nice to have a tunnel through an extended mountain 🏔️ very close to where the train yard / train shed is 😇👍
Great work as always!
Thanks for the update Jordan.
In my opinion, you will have additional problems with the green 4x4 plates and it doesn’t look good. That’s part of why Lego is so cool, it’s superior fit and finish.
Sweet, idk seeing those last two Modules in the boatyard going in will be so satisfying 😂
What about putting your engine shed and the 2 tracks leading into them at a 45 deg angle? Also, use some clear panels for skylights to bring more light below
You should add things like potholes and some road damage in the roadplates
I think the brittle green plates would make some awesome texture for landscaping.
Your Lego city looking good. Your rail yard look great and thinking the track that go to the engine shop. You could have that track have all the switch’s come off the this track to give you more yard space.
I wish I could turn into a mini figure and walk around in this city.
i feel like the rural train yard needs an access road so maintenace crew or trucks can reach that area around those tracks
Ever seen a clean industrial area? Me nether. You need to break up the gray with potholes and oil spills and weeds growing through the cracks and around the edges
That sounds like something you do during the detail phase of construction - not base layer.
8:18 😂 actually got me..
Regarding those green plates. If something sounds too cheap to be true there must be a catch. Also they're likely stolen from the factory.
You should do a third line going around just the county side and that could be a cargo train
Have you considered doing an under the sea section in the front of your city? Submarine, sunken ships, mermaids, fish, octopus…….
Rail fan here
There is no siding in your train yard if an engine needs to move to the other side of the rail cars its hauling it can't
The engine can connect to cars in the yard and pull them out onto the main loop but it will always be pushing the cars if you go around the loop clockwise if you want the engine to pull the cars and go around clockwise you will need to add a siding (preferably right next to the yard) so a engine can get on the siding pass the cars to get in front of them
But other then that the yard looks pretty good keep up the good work
Small detail, but I think you need to build bumpers for the end of all of your tracks.
There is one and I plan to build more for the other tracks in the detail phase.
Idea you should make a water park named "Bricksie splash!"
"Splashie"
Hey i love what you have done
The one by four on the outside of the harbor could be yellow to show the end of the area
Has anyone ever told you you look (and sound) like Bob Odenkirk? 😄
Train yard reminds me of a multiverse timeline...
Could have a road coming off the gravel road to the old train shed.
What if before you finish the mountain deeper Into the display, you added a switch track and had a section of straight track where a full train could be “waiting”, wouldn’t have to ever run but would be a way to have another train displayed
I really like the new Harbour and cargo ship set. Any plans to work it into your city?
awsome video
Could you find some yellow flat plates for striping in the shipyard. Like safety lines, road stripes, etc?
I’ve been around train yards, never seen a green one😂
This is LEGOoooooo
You should create a mountain rescue center with helicopter and off road vehicles on the mountain! Great Job Bricksie🎉
go and buy 2 of the new modern house 3in1 set and do the brick artisan rebrickable model to put in the residential area pls
Boats don't park. They are moored!
You should put a turntable style train house
In the train yard
I need to convince my wife to go on vacation to Edmonton, then I could give you a hand separating all your pieces in those containers. 😂
crains on the main trainstation that u upgraded today should be on other side where the sea is ? its more logical to be there to take cargo out/in from ships/train
Don’t forget you have a whole bin of blue plate that you stored all the 501st battle pack parts in. 😂
Please please please turn your observation tower so it's looking into the yard itself rather than the yard entrance. Your staff in there need to see whats going on :)
idea mountain train line for Ninjago
I would flip the air field towards the ocean. You make the runway bigger and make more room for the campground.
Can the Lego store do a special order for you? Or maybe increase their order on certain parts after seeing the increased sales? 🤔
Think if you use flower stem pieces bunched together would look like the overgrown grass you’d see at train yards, leading to a wheat field, going into a farm so produce can be easily transported and loaded on the trains to deliver to the city
Are you planning a roundhouse? I think they are cool.
Keep up the good work love your lego city
I think you need to slow down a little bit if you want to keep building in this layout in more than a year. At this speed you are done in 6 months 😅
Hiya Bricksie! Just a two cents worth observation. The red office under the crane...shouldn't that spot be for trucks/road vehicles? So the crane removes freight from train cars and transfers it to flat bed trucks/container trucks etc? It would be rare to find an office building under a gantry crane...🤔
Hey, why can’t you reuse the PAB boxes? Just take them with you if your intent is PAB?
Looks great. If you fence off the train yard how will cars get to the old station and your custom one. You could make a gate by the camping area on the trail?
is there a way to make the outer perimeter line "toggle" the switch track every time it passes a point after it? so it could automatically alternate between going through one route and the other?
It would be nice if you added graffiti artists on the railway siding ;)
wouldn't it be more proper having the gravel road removed and to reach the camp ground just travel under the mountain. im saying this cuz it would be closer to the campground and as the road comes out of the mountain you could take a turn and make a parking lot and on the other side take a turn and make a long road to the winter village sort of like a "T" from the mountain. and since you have such a big city maybe you could add a highway to the winter village and keep a sign saying "winter village 200m" and keep the surrounding area tan as undeveloped desert area with a gas stop and something else
Hi Bricksie, I’m currently putting railroad ties on my train tracks. Why did you go with black and not brown like everybody else?
Because everyone else did that, but I think dark brown would be sick
@@Bricksie thank you
How about peeling off the baseplate from the bottom to prevent the breaks?
Indeed I mentioned that to Simon after, we could flip the plates upside down and peel the plate off to minimize breaking.