Lego Train Rerailer by

[@Tivis7]

Thanks for the review! I'm glad the rerailer is helpful! Though, honestly, I'm surprised LEGO hasn't implemented their own version yet, like you mentioned, I always remember using these rails with my old HO scale models, super usefu! Cheers!

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

Thanks for all the hard work on the rerailer project! I'm sure this took a lot of time / effort to get it right!

[@jossdeiboss]

Unfortunately LEGO does not want to invest in trains that much and stay on the "kids toy" policy for trains. I think that LEGO tried to expand the train system with the 12V and the "My own train". However, when those came out, most of LEGO fans were kids/teenagers. If they tried again, I am pretty sure they would get a great response from customers. I would also push further and say that they could open a specific company, under LEGO corporation, to test the idea and don't risk to impact the main LEGO market.

[@Tchtm]

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[@oliverjroebuck]

@Tivis7 Would you consider making some rerailers in a similar bluish-grey to lego's rails, so that they blend in better?

[@Vtarngpb]

FFFFOOOOOAAAAAMMMMEEEERRRRRR!!! 😂

[@neilrusling-je6zo]

Mate of mine has a 12 foot tunnel and a couple of these inside it would be worth their weight in gold. It would not surprise me if he did the entire tunnel in rerailers considering the effort it takes to fix a derailed train in that tunnel. If Tivis7 gets an order for 28 you will know who its from.

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

Haha! That's a great use case for them!

[@yowatheshit]

dude just get a long flexible pole and shove it out in the other side

[@dr.robertnick9599]

He could just get two of these Lego "railers" that were shown in this video and let the train ride without tracks inside the tunnel. No derailing if there are no rails. The tunnel prevents the train from going anywhere but forward.

[@Philly_Willy]

@@dr.robertnick9599 yea but the train might get stuck on the side of the tunnel

[@ctreurniet3373]

1:17 "I'm not a 3D Printer" I sure hope your not :D

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

last I checked I wasn't 😅

[@RCmies]

I read the title as "derailer" and was so confused, why would you need to derail your trains lmao

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

Actually real trains do have derailers to keep trains from going where they aren't supposed to be. Maybe I need to build one or have someone print one 😅

[@Autoskip]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks I feel like a couple of cheese wedges in the right place (or wrong one, depending on how you look at it) would do the trick…

[@gilles111]

That's what I read at first too.. Pretty confused, we use them at my work (the 1:1 railroad) but why on earth would I want to derail my LEGO trains? Think I'm going to order the download from him and ask a friend to print it for me

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

@@gilles111 I think most intentional Lego train derailments on KZbin would be "for the views" 😅

[@imperialempire8569]

@@BatteryPoweredBricksbuild one out of Lego? Minifig scale!

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

These are fairly common with smaller scales, it's a right pain getting N and smaller railed without them. Interesting to see them for Lego, although it's probably useful in areas that are harder to reach and somewhat prone to derailment.

[@nkende]

This is a really cool piece! It'll probably be quite useful on larger layouts, especially if the trains are going at higher speeds (as you also said in the video) Great showcase Brian!

[@De_lego_treinen_nerd]

Probably

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

That is by far the coolest looking Amtrak Lego passenger train I have ever seen I love the color scheme on it it looks very close to detail

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

I think it looks great! I think it's important to use Dark Azure instead of Blue for the stripe. It's mostly a design from ReBrickable. The GP-40 and the baggage cars are my design. I have a video on my channel for the initial build and then another when I added the GP-40

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks wow that’s very cool

[@silvesterpeel5379]

5:35 Hi Bevon, I would use one in behind the Lego railer as well. For those boggies that miss the ramp.

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, like two rerailers in a row? That could work well. Also who is Bevon? 😅

[@corykountz9760]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks i think they mean use a inline rerailer after the end of line rerail ramp that lego makes

[@Jo24Park]

Exactly! Smartest to place it right behind Lego's railing ramp 😃

[@SpeedyGwen]

omfg this would be the dream piece, especially as a kid, I was Extremly bad at putting trains on tracks as a kid due to not perfect dexterity and its still not easy

[@JhonmanProdictions]

I didn’t know Amtrak used coaches straight out of the Island of Sodor.

[@arcturuslight_]

"I am not a 3D printer" Well I am! _transformation noises_

[@SpeedyGwen]

I love the use of martin music at the end

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

I love Wintergatan and I am super glad they allow their music to be used on KZbin 😁. I use it in almost every video!

[@BrickTrains]

Interesting item. Very hard to duplicate in bricks. 😅

[@jespermller6956]

I think it needs a flat/straight section in the middle, that will make it better when you have boggy wheels, that will keep all 4 weeks in line before reintroducing trains to tracks

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

It would be interesting to see how it could be improved by making it longer but I guess the goal was to make it the length of a single track. Doubling that would make it much more expensive to make and might require a bigger printer.

[@jespermller6956]

Well yes it might be a little bit longer, but if you take the design as it is now, cut in half in the middle and add 4cm straight track, then both wheels will be aligned to the track before running back to the track. As it is now one set can run off again before the back set of wheels are on track But remember this is just an idea for you to try out

[@satibel]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks it's 256mm if 32 studs, most recent printers should be 260+ (though there's a few 180 or 220) so it should be fine, it could also be made as 2 identical parts , so you can use them individually as one way rerailers, or you could have 8 studs half rerailers and put them back to back or put a straight piece in the middle which keeps to the 32 stud grid. also except that you can print less at a time it wouldn't be much more expensive, it is probably like a 20 minute print, and adding a straight piece in the middle would make it a 30 minute print, and cost maybe 50 cent extra of material, and like 5 bucks of print time, so like 10 bucks on top making it 40 instead of 30, which isn't that much extra if you count the 20 bucks shipping. though if you want more it's probably worth investing in an entry level printer.

[@edgarmatzinger9742]

I was reading derailer... And why would one use something like that? 😂😂😂

[@EinBahnfan]

Oh, in real railways, they a very important! 😉

[@maskedredstonerproz]

someone said if you have minifigs working on the rail line, or a set more valuable than the cost of rerailing the train

[@ellielobes]

'rerailer' is just Scooby referring to a bicycle derailleur 😄

[@pastajensen]

Something like this might be useful for bigger layouts, but the one you show here did seem to be a 50% of the time it works every-time. Thanks for sharing and showing your toughs about this as I did not know that this was a thing. 😅

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

I probably should have done more testing with different rolling stock. I imagine different wheel arrangements / weight / speed would make a lot of difference. Overall I don't think the design could be improved very much. It certainly works better than any HO scale rerailers I ever had 😅

[@pastajensen]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks In terms of function I agree it's limited what one can do. Never seen/used a re-railer so I have no experience there. I guess if the wagons are to light it will be a problem as they tend to "jump" more.

[@Damjes]

What about putting 2 or 3 of them in series?

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

That could probably work pretty well, I'll try it next time I use them

[@Juke172]

It might wear out the wheels on the train faster, so I wouldn't keep it on unless you really need it. Like outside where you have rocks and plants that might derail the train then maybe.

[@tom13794]

im honetly supprised they don use something like this irl i wonder what the limitations of this are

[@littlelego]

Hi there, What about putting 2 or 3 of them inline as "backup" in case the first or second doesn't completely rerail it?

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

That would probably work pretty well, but I only bought two and often have several loops at once. If I printed my own it would probably be a different story

[@studworld1510]

Maybe I don't see it, but what sense does it make to put it several times in a layout? You will never know where your train will derail and if there are spots where it is often derailing it would make more sense to fix this spots. Putting the piece once, where you usually put your trains on the layout would be the use case for me.

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

I've seen a few comments with useful ideas. One mentioned they had a tunnel that often had derailments and rerailers at each end could help a lot

[@maskedredstonerproz]

or just making the whole tunnel outta the damn things

[@amosnider]

Perhaps with 2 or 3 of these in together, then you don't need to go back and forth.

[@Techischannel]

Dyslexic me read the title as "Lego Train Derailer"

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

I've gotten that same comment so many times I am making a video on a derailer 😅

[@MinkSquared]

So... Have you heard of a movie called the polar express?

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

I've heard of the movie and the book it was based on but I've never seen it or read the book

[@Blakastic]

Looked like it said derailer and was confused cuz the thumbnail wasn't a derailer

[@Redteamrocks]

Is the AmTrak train at the beginning a MOC?

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

It's from ReBrickable, it's a MOC by Oninino. I have a few videos about that build on the channel

[@jijgeeganbaatar4129]

WHY IS THE TRAIN SO LONG?!?!?!?!

[@bradbradrailfan]

I’ve got that model train rerailer (not LEGO) and sometimes use it as a grade crossing 💀

[@imperialempire8569]

What is the link to the free one? The download?

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

It's linked in Tivis7's original video

[@imperialempire8569]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks I looked there. The free download isn’t there.

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

ah, I added the link in the description of my video. Thanks for letting me know

[@imperialempire8569]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks np

[@supertrains156.66]

I use the points to be a rerailerintell Lego makes this part

[@Crlarl]

It feels wrong to have Amtrak cars and locos with European buffers.

[@BLUEBUNNY2008]

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[@BLUEBUNNY2008]

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[@darknessblades]

Why did I read the title as Lego train DERAILER.

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

You and everyone else, I got so many comments like this 😅

[@darknessblades]

@@BatteryPoweredBricks Maybe its time to make one then?

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

@@darknessblades I can neither confirm nor deny such a video 😅

[@AlMcpherson79]

I misread the title.... I thought it was DErailer, not RErailer....

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

You and everyone else, I honestly think that's why the video did so well 😅

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

more 3d priting wonders... and now that legos patent is expired you can probably print your own legos.