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   muleboy | Jan 28, 2006 09:34am | #1

   I don't have a  plan so to speak but I built one for my nephew years ago and now his little brother uses it.   I used Brio's as an example.    I made the sides from MDF.  The sides are just one piece with the legs cut into them...   Extremely simple.   I routed a dado in the MDF just below where I wanted the top to sit.  I inserted a maple strip 3/4" thick by 1 1/2" wide, with the length being just shy of the side.   I repeated this for all four sides and assembled with 1/4"-20 furniture screws and cross threaded dowels.  The dowels are inserted from the inside part of the leg.   The top I purchased from Brio.

   I painted each side a different color.   All colors from the painted top.   years later after his trains became too numerous and scattered all over his room I made a shelving unit for the train cars.   This is made from solid maple.   The shelves are essentially long pieces of track.   Just two grooves routed in the maple and the edges rounded over.  It holds over a hundred cars.

   I will ask my sister to send me a few pictures of both.

   That kid is the Brio King.

   Muleboy.

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   normite | Feb 21, 2006 08:48pm | #2

   Hi!

    

   I made a table for my little boy's Thomas the Train sets a couple years back. I copied the dimensions from the Pottery Barn table that is intended for the same purpose. It's basically a plywood table top with an edge that overhangs the top and bottom. The base is just four post legs connected by an apron. I used biscuits as my joinery method. The Pottery Barn model comes with optional drawers that fit underneath the table on casters so I made those too. I painted the whole thing with white enamel paint. The whole project cost me about $50. It's been played on for over three years now and it looks brand new.