Joos and Frank built another beautiful automated LEGO train layout in 2024, and presented it on Dutchbricks “Bricktopia” show in December 2024 in Geelen in the Netherlands.
The layout including most of the rolling stock was provided, built and automated by Joos Buijs.
This is the track plan of the layout:
These are the key figures of the layout:
- Size: about 3 x 6 meters
- 18 blocks
- 36 reed sensors
- 4 light signals with 3 aspects
- Total track length of about 50 meters:
- 15 switches (of which 6 automated with Trixbrix motors)
- 289 straight tracks
- 81 curved tracks
- 6 trains concurrently on the track
- 60197 passenger train
- 60198 green cargo train
- 10277 Crocodile locomotive
- 60051 white intercity train
- 60336 cargo train
- 60337 passenger train
- Automation setup
- 5 MattzoLayoutControllers (MLC).
- MattzoTrainController for Bluetooth (MTC4BT) on ESP32’s to control the trains.
- Private Wifi router setup
- Laptop running Kubuntu, Mosquitto and Rocrail
This is the Rocrail plan of the layout:
The layout featured a lot of beautiful and well designed buildings from modular LEGO building expert and Dutchbricks board member Frank Derks.
Video
Check out this video about the show:
It’s great to see that our Mattzobricks Train Automation System 2.0 works so well in practice.
Great job, Joos and Frank!