Lego Train Track Mini Crossing Be the first to upload a Print for this Design! My son complained that there was no railway crossing for the new Lego City Train - only a crossing for the old (incompatible) Lego Tracks exists. This poor child has to play with my old toys ;-) ... and I remember from my childhood, that I hated this clumsy big blue crossing, because it was not possible to cross two close parallel tracks. Luckily times have changed. Here is a Mini-Railway-Crossing for the new Lego City Train. The smaller design allows to cross tons of close parallel tracks. Top and bottom sides interlock with basic Lego bricks. Your browser is out-of-date! Update your browser to view this website correctly. Update my browser now 74 used & new from & FREE UK Delivery on orders dispatched by Amazon over £20. Order within and choose at checkout. Note: This item is eligible for click and collect. Pick up your parcel at a time and place that suits you.
How to order to an Amazon Pickup Location? Find your preferred location and add it to your address book Set includes four curved rails, one left side switching track and one right side switching trackTracks do not conduct electricity and therefore are not compatible with LEGO 9v TrainsEnjoy playing with children and adult's LEGO City 7895: Train Tracks Dispatched from and sold by Amazon. FREE Delivery on orders over . DetailsLEGO City 7499: Flexible Tracks FREE Delivery on orders over . DetailsLEGO City 60051 High-Speed Passenger Train Set FREE Delivery in the UK. Special Offers and Product Promotions Toys StoreVisit the Toys Store at Amazon.co.uk to browse even more toys with everything from dolls and games to fun for all the family with toddler toys, arts & crafts and educational games too. Product Dimensions28.8 x 19.2 x 6 cm Manufacturer recommended age:5 - 12 years Manufacturer's Suggested Maximum Weight9.1 Grams Main Language(s)Italian translation, Italian manual, German manual, French manual, English manual, Spanish manual, Italian
2,100 in Toys & Games (See top 100) Date First Available10 Jun. 2006 LEGO City 7895 Train Tracks Set. City 7499: Flexible Tracks City 60052: Cargo Train City RC Curved Tracks X 8 See all 124 customer reviews We bought this to go with a new lego train set at christmas(LEGO City 60051: High-Speed Passenger Train), we still needed 7499 LEGO City 7499: Flexible Tracks to be able to make any other shape than an oval. There is not even enough track to link up a siding.The usual good lego quality though. See all 124 customer reviews (newest first) on Amazon.co.uk Very good, grandson love's itGenuine Lego track to extend Lego trainsets. Arrived on time and my son loves the pieces! He had some tracks already and this box made him made more interesting train routes. Cant go wrong with Lego. Good price and product. Great product as the train pack only came with a tiny track. This was bought for my daughter who has a train set that for some reason I keep playing with, just don't lose the yellow points handle, good to add to an existing train set.
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I know exactly what those engines said: “Chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga, ding-ding-ding-ding, choo-choo!” How is this even a question? Anyway, what this fellow was talking about was the Golden Spike Ceremony. It was a special event that took place on 10 May 1869 in Promontory Summit, Utah to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. During the ceremony, the rail line was symbolically completed with the driving of a final railroad spike made of solid gold using a silver hammer, ending years of building from both ends of the line from the East starting at the Missouri River and from the West starting at Sacramento, California (it was extended to San Francisco Bay by the end of the year). This was kind of a big deal because for the very first time the East Coast and the West Coast of the United States were connected by rail, revolutionizing cross-country travel overnight. Now, instead of traveling West in a covered wagon for several months along dangerous routes like the Oregon Trail and risk dying of dysentery, you could travel all the way to California in less than a week!
Now, almost 150 years later, the Golden Spike Ceremony is considered one of the most important milestones in 19th Century American history. If you were to make a brand-new Lego set based around one historical event in the USA revolving around trains or railroads, this would be it. Piece count: 2,019 total (Jupiter [bright blue]: 968; #119 [dark red]: 977; track: 8; everything else: 66) Dimensions: 124.8 mm (13 bricks) H x 520 mm (65 studs) L x 256 mm (32 studs) W The Golden Spike Ceremony: 150th Anniversary Lego set is meant to replicate the famous photo taken during the event showing a crowd of people posing on and in front of two steam locomotives facing each other at the point where the two railroads making up the Transcontinental Railroad met on 10 May 1869. The two figures shaking hands are Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific Railroad (left); and Thomas C. Durant, Vice President and main stockholder of the Union Pacific Railroad (right). Leland Stanford was meant to be the person to drive the Golden Spike, but when he swung the silver hammer, he missed!
Thomas C. Durant decided to give it a try, but when he swung the hammer, he also missed! At this point, the two men agreed to have a regular worker do the job, who drove the spike successfully. The two figures standing on the locomotives toasting with bottles of sarsaparilla (a popular non-alcoholic drink at the time similar to root beer) are the engineers. Standing in front and away from the crowd is the photographer taking the famous picture with his glass plate camera. Rounding out the remainder of the figures are two women, a soldier, and a worker. The two locomotives are the Central Pacific Jupiter (bright blue) and the Union Pacific #119 (dark red). Their design is based directly off of full-size, operational replicas of the original locomotives at the Golden Spike National Historic Site (the original locomotives were both scrapped long ago). The Jupiter uses wood as its fuel while the #119 uses coal. These different fuel types are the reason why their smokestacks are shaped differently.
Burning wood gives off a lot of sparks, which need to be caught in a large cone-shaped smokestack to prevent them from escaping and starting fires. Coal burns better than wood and gives off fewer sparks, so only a straight smokestack is needed. These locomotives are set upon eight sections of straight track and are compatible with all existing Lego train track. They are also both designed to be compatible with power functions and the top of each tender can be opened to insert a battery box and an IR remote receiver. The back wheel section of each tender can also be easily switched out with a train motor. The same Leland Stanford who was at the Golden Spike Ceremony founded this university along with his wife, Jane Stanford, several years later. The original Golden Spike is currently on display at the Cantor Arts Center on the university campus. Under President Abraham Lincoln’s administration, the Pacific Railroad Acts were passed allowing for the Transcontinental Railroad’s construction and funding.
These acts and most of their amendments were passed while the American Civil War was still taking place. Furthermore, Lincoln himself chose Council Bluffs, Iowa along the Missouri River as the eastern terminus of the new railroad. The current replicas of the Jupiter and #119 locomotives from the Golden Spike Ceremony located at the Golden Spike National Historic Site in Promontory Summit, Utah were built by an engineering company run by Chadwell O’Connor, a personal friend of Walt Disney himself who shared his love of railroads, particularly old-fashioned, 19th Century American railroads. Furthermore, original Disney animator Ward Kimball, who was also a personal friend of Walt Disney and a big-time train buff, did the color matching for the two locomotives and drew the elaborate pictures on the #119 locomotive and tender. Goals and Final Remarks My primary goal with designing this Lego set is to see Lego sell a train set based around non-fictional, 19th Century American railroading.