Can I make a railroad on this?

[Greenbell]

Can i make a lego railroad on this?

[Plukkie070]

idk, maybe if your imagination lets you, you prolly can

[MachoBeet]

Yes. Absolutely. I have seen a YouTube video where someone made a train station and railroads.

[Majatek]

Depends on what you mean. LEGO Worlds currently doesn't have any LEGO railway track pieces or any trains to ride, but you could try building railways brick by brick.

If you plan on going ahead with making your own railway tracks out of bricks, I suggest using LEGO Digital Designer and copy the proportions/dimensions of LEGO railway tracks so that if/when LEGO Worlds eventually supports actual LEGO railway track pieces, you can easily replace all the brick-build tracks you've made with the actual railway pieces and have everything meet up properly.

There's LDD tutorials on how to get models into the game in the Creative Corner sub-forum. Good luck, and happy building!

tl;dr: No, you can't, but that doesn't mean you can't fake it with custom brick builds/MOCs until they add actual railways!

[Aloan]

good idea about the proportions, now I am eager to find out the width betweem the rails - my guess is a 2x4 fits right in the middle so 4 studs in between and 2 studs (1 underneath and one outside) making it a total of 8 studs wide... Idk, just guessing (silly face)

[Majatek]

Just checked in LDD.

A straight railway piece is 8 studs wide by 16 studs long by 3 plates tall (there are half-stud overlapping segments but they meet up with other LEGO railway parts to add structural rigidity in real life). The rails are 1 stud wide, leaving an empty space between the two rails of 4 studs wide by 16 studs long, and 1 plate high (there are railway sleepers that the rails rest upon). There are four 2 by 4 stud wide gaps between the sleepers that you can fill with ballast (if aesthetics require dirt for example), but that's the only piece you can really use that allows you to do that.

Corner pieces are more complicated, but providing you use two right-angled corner pieces, you can create a complete 90-degree right-angle turn that takes up 27 square studs and 3 plates tall. An S-curve made of two corner pieces turning right and then left again takes up a space of 20 studs wide by 32 studs long and 3 plates tall - or two straight railway pieces if they were wider.

The geometry of track pieces means that assuming you're using only right-angle corner pieces and straight pieces, your track will always be a perfectly enclosed loop (assuming you use an even amount of straight pieces on the opposite ends of all four sides of the track). More complex shapes can be made (along with switch track pieces that change direction) but ultimately that adds further complexity that may end up with miss-alignment.

I'm really hoping LEGO Worlds adds trains one day!