I have made a start on the Harbour which will take up a large portion of the layout. The photo below shows the first two baseplates
As can be seen, the section incorporates the overhead gantry crane supplied in the 7839 train set, shown here transfering a Cargo Train Container from rail to lorry. The dock road plates will be raised up when on display and the plan at present is to use 32 x 8 grey baseplates on their sides as the dock walls. Detail will be added to these
I decided to make use of the Lego flexible tracks and I quite like the result as they appear to have check rails inside of the running rails as often seen on quay sides
The ship moored to the right is the one supplied in Legos rather stupidly designed set 4645. Even my daughter was angry at how rubbish the design of this set is, firstly as the crane pivot is fixed so the boat has to be moved around to unload it and secondly because the quay side is a water level. I got the set half price from Wilkinsons during their Christmas-eve sale so have built the boat and lorry, both of which I quite like, the rest i have put in the parts bin!
This the smaller dock area, the main part will feature a Maersk Container ship - made from 2 Lego 10155 sets combined to make a longer wider ship. Along side this will be a container crane for unloading and transfering to road or rail,
This will feature on one of my next updates, look out for more soon!
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