On Train Platforms

So if you’ve known Brian at all, or you’ve seen our engagement photos, or you’ve seen our Lego collection, you may know that we like trains. A lot. And while we’d love to have a full train platform with miniatures and grass and moving pieces, that’s both expensive and all-consuming of square footage. Both things we’re not willing or able to shell out right now. You may also know that we really like building Lego. I’ve been building Lego off and on since I was about ten, when my mom took me to the park one day, I found a minifigure, begged her for a Lego set, and got instantly hooked. I stopped with the hobby in high school and sold off a number of my sets in college or gave them away, mostly because I thought Lego weren’t cool. I was wrong. Here I am over ten years later admiring a little Lego scene we’ve built, all centered around two and a half trolleys/trams/trains. I say “and a half” because as I’m typing this, Brian is building his Christmas present: a rather large Lego model of the Orient Express, and it’s currently in pieces. Literally. He has a single train car partially built and a ton of track laid. The rest of the platform, however, is doing well. We went to Home Depot, Brian did some measurements, stud-finding, drilling, and swearing, and ten holes later: we have a cool shelf in our living room for our little Lego friends to inhabit! I’m sure Brian will share some snazzy photos soon, but this is in more or less constant reconstruction at this point. I keep adding figures, changing which flower and butterfly combo goes where, and deciding how best to show three trains in a completely one-dimensional (on a horizontal axis) plane. I think after I post this I’ll get into the rendering software and see if I can model out an elevated trolley platform. Decisions, decisions…

-G