Category: Tracks

This one had more parallel tracks than the recent ones. Came out pretty well, though. The long bridge in the middle didn’t last long, though.

Back from the summer vacation, Clemens demanded that we build some tracks. I obliged and he is now really pushing a train along the tracks.

The idea for this one was to build a spiral and then use the bridges to connect the ends together.

Sometimes, I just make simple ones like this:

My aim here was to build a compact set of tracks.

Well, sometimes there is no time to build an elaborate set of tracks. Today, I just made a simple loop for Clemens to play with before I had to leave:

This time I tried something new: the goal was to build a track where the electric locomotive would pass over all pieces when set on the track. That goal is simple to reach by building a simple loop or anything else topologically isomorphic to a circle. Getting the same result with a lot of switches and having the train run back over the same piece is a lot trickier. The only assumption you need to make is that the train will take the straight rail when encountering a switch.

The second picture is right before godzilla got her fingers on the track.

Hannes and Evelyn are back in Vienna. We built this one together:

Kevin Drum does “Friday cat-blogging”, John Cole has also pictures of pets between serious posts, so I thought I do something similar.

So, from now on this blog will feature wooden train tracks.

They are actually toys for the kids. When we first got them, Clemens didn’t quite know what to do with them, but now he finally starts to build his own tracks and trains to push along.

And then there is the menace of land of trains: Godzilla, the destroyer of tracks:

Anyway, as with a good number of stuff kids get from their parents, it’s not all selfless giving. (Andrea is looking forward to buy Clemens a Carrerabahn, as she always wanted to have one as a kid.) Sometimes it’s nice to have an excuse for playing with children’s toys again.

So I’ve taken up building fancy sets of tracks with Clemens’ wooden tracks.

I’ve started to photograph my creations some time ago and will now upload them. I’ll date the blog posts accordingly, so some of the entries will appear in the past. Use this link to see them all.