Railing in the Main Entrance and the Platforms has been a design issue for a while now. I started with this idea. Using transparent light blue 1x1 round plates, stacked four high. Then capped with transparent blue 1x tiles. This idea is shown here.
The issue for me is that this was just too massive. A railing should not be a focal point, but with this design, it was just over whelming.
I moved on to this. Much simpler using the telescope to support a 1x tile.
But this reminded me to much of a church alter or communion rail. So this did not work either.
What is a railing, especially in an industrial type setting. In it's simplest form it is just pipe connected with T-Joints. So how can we do this. There are no true pipes in the Lego system. The closest item is a bar. They come in many sizes and shapes, these are but a few examples.
Additionally there is need for flexibility in length. The longer it is, the harder it will be to fit into irregular space. The shorter it is, the more you need. And so cost becomes an issue also. If you need lots of them, you would prefer they be inexpensive.
Which leads to this. This is the same concept in two different forms. On the left is a round 1x brick and on the right are three 1x1 round plates with an open stud. Both are capped by the mechanical claw and 4L bar. What is nice about this idea is that the bar comes in multiple colors. Here I am using transparent light blue bars. I could have used a 1x1 tile with an open O clip instead of the claw, but somehow the square tile on top of the round pillar just did not seem the right idea.
Here is a view how this idea turned out. At first getting two bars into one clip was challenging. But after a few, I developed a method that made it fairly easy. Getting the first one int he correct place made the rest easy to do.
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