Route 66 Project relaunched @ Bricky Way 2024
Lego conventions, their preparations, safe transportation of all models to the exhibit’s location and setting everything up on site usually tend to cause a whole heap of stress for me, which is the reason why I am generally reluctant to take part in them.
However, when my friend Gabor Horvath revealed to me that he was going to organize a third Bricky Way event in Györ, Hungary, and proposed that we could set up a larger version of our Route 66 Project, I decided to get onboard once more 😊.
The perspective of teaming up again with Gabor and setting up a much larger layout based on the Route 66 / Out West theme that we had created together with ER0L in 2016 and further extended at Bricky Way 2018 - a layout the size of which I couldn’t possibly set up at home due to spatial restrictions - was super tempting and was what pushed me to go for it.
As usual, my building wish list was long and the number of new, single MOCs I was able to create was relatively low. However, the road structures, landscaping and train tracks were further optimized and extended. I figured out a way to make the old 12V train tracks look decent with the pieces I had, creating a double loop with complete embankments and multi-track railroad crossings, with one of them being located in one of the quarter curves.
New stuff
The following new MOCs of mine were not shown at any of the two prior exhibitions:
-a 12V Sante Fe Diesel Engine in a classic paint theme,
-the long dreamed up “Gunz N Alienz Store”
-and the HP BELCURD Tanker Trailer for my white long-nose semi truck.
Gabor created a new, huge prison complete with its prison bus and whose yard is full of amazing details. He also came up with background stories for most of the inmates 😉.
Gabor’s section was the short stroke of the L-shaped layout and included the Prison, Trailer Home and Car Repair Shop with its scrapyard along with the corresponding desert and Route 66 modules.
My section was the L’s long stroke, comprising six Route 66 modules with a four-track railway crossing, a prolonged Lerner Airfield Road, the Mojave Inn Motel, the new “Gunz N Alienz” Store and my former cargo aircraft’s nose as “aircraft scrap” in the desert, embedded in the 12V double loop, with the smaller road leading up to one of the Airfield’s gates.
Setting up the adjacent Airfield in due dimensions filled me with great joy, as I hadn’t been able to do this yet due to said lack of space. For the first time, the dimensions and distances between aircraft and the tower looked decent and realistic.
In addition, my long-time dream of building a nice Diesel engine based on the 12V system as a basis came true, with a Santa Fe engine (rather than my 9V CN models) as a better fit for desert scenery such as presented in our joint Bricky Way 2024 layout.
Going to Hungary would have been impossible without the tremendous help of my dear wife Catherine, who supported me, helped me, kept me company, navigated, prepared food and drinks for the 2x930k ride and took care of our dog who came along, a cute Sheltie named Lilly.
Thank you, Catherine – you are the Best!
Thank you all for looking and having read through all this!
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