So, during holidays I built (with friends) some original and off brand Lego trains stuff and I'm quite happy about how it went.
Two Lego original trains - Crocodile locomotive with official motorisation and Downtown tram with unofficial motorisation from Rebrickable (using official parts). A few train cars from Bluebrixx. A mixture of official tracks and tracks from Trixbrix/some no name brands - I'm especially happy about different track curves (R56 and R72, official is only R40), because I was able to build a really nice two-track railway with constant distance between tracks.
Regarding Bluebrixx - I'm glad I bought the train cars during the Black Friday sales, because although they're really nice, one of them had to be adapted to work properly with some spare Lego parts we had at home and the quality of the bricks is not as good as original Lego ones - they're sometimes too tight and sometimes too loose and it's slightly frustrating. I can't imagine building them again because of that - I will just keep them in a completed state forever 😟
Trixbrix tracks are really good quality - some are injection molded and those are almost indistinguishable from official Lego ones, some are 3D printed (specific switches), and these work well too, although they're slightly "soft" - I'm wondering what type of filament was used for them.
Also, I was amazed how fast the tram is using the custom motorisation - it sometimes derailed on full speed even when on the R72 curves, which are pretty wide.
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