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A Sunday afternoon with the kids: Time to make room on the floor and build a nice set of tracks.

This one was built without much consideration based on a simple loop Clemens started. Looking at the finished layout I noticed that this one differs from the recent ones in one respect: there are no terminal loops in this one. There is no way the train can turn around.

One of Clemens’ birthday present was an addition to the tracks (pieces + a train) by IKEA.

The tracks fit in nicely, but the bridge is too low: our normal trains cannot pass underneath.

Clemens started to build his own tracks, mainly consisting of a single long path. Yesterday, we finally managed to build together a decent set of tracks:

This one started with a basic circle and grew from that. Worked out better than expected in the end. These days, once I build such a track, both kids play with trains on it. I had to repair the bridge a few times, but it’s getting a lot better now.