Music title used in this video:

Song title: Chasin’ It
Musician: Jason Shaw
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Source:
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This video is the result of my first attempts with the video editing software Vidiot, which is available as freeware.
Video footage from onboard my train taken with ER0L’s cell phone; other videos taken with my Nikon D3200.


Route 66 back on track @ Lego Convention Bricky Way 2018

General Description : ER0L’s, Gábors and my second shot at a joint Lego Route 66 desert layout

ER0L’s (left) section:
- Moving bus & police command vehicle,
- V8-Diner,
- Wedding Chapel,
- Pump Jack and TX Fuels Utility Pick-Up Truck,
- cars,
- cacti and plants in new green tones.
-> www.flickr.com/photos/er0l

Gábor’s (middle) section:
- Car Repair Shop & Scrap Yard,
- scrap cars,
- Mobile Trailer Home.
-> www.flickr.com/photos/gabor_horvath

My (right) section:
- Mojave Inn Motel,
- Lerner Airfield Memorial,
- all semi trucks & two pick-up trucks,
- CN & CITGO freight train,
- Side road and railway crossing with road markings,
- cacti & other vegetation in good old green.

Each of us contributed to common layout features such as the R66 modules, telegraph masts, sand-colored base-plates, train tracks, etc.; all of us chose plenty of individual decoration features in addition.

Orange and red convertibles in my section made & owned by ER0L.


The text I proposed for our MOC card at Bricky Way 2018:
(Somewhat adapted and translated into Hungarian by Gábor)

“Just as the movie title, “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” were what brought Gábor Horvath, Marcus Paul (AKA “ER0L”) and Steffen Kasteleiner (AKA “Buff83ST”) together during their first intermezzo at a Lego Convention called “Zusammengebaut 2016” in Borken, Hessen, Germany. As avid fans of American roadside scenery and culture, set into the more arid regions of America’s Western deserts, this time, they are displaying an extension of their strip of the famous Route 66 with its array of typical sights a driver might come across on a long-distance ride out West: an iconic, roadside “V8 Diner”, a Wedding Chapel, a working Pump Jack conveying some of America’s “Black Gold”, a Car Repair Shop and its Desert Scrapyard, a desolate Mobil Home, the somewhat spacey Mojave Inn Motel at an intersection, and an aviation-related monument to Lerner Airfield as displayed in Borken in the year 2016.
Set into the joint layouts are loads of iconic American cars, trucks and some North American freight train equipment, as the railroad topic is more prominent at Bricky Way 2018’s layout than it had been before in Borken.
Some of the cars can “magically” move, and as the lights go out, a few things are going to shine brightly in the dark blue desert night sky…

Motivations

Among the builders’ motivations were the desire to create in Lego some of their dreams, fantasies and favorite notions and clichés of the American West and convey them into their builds, to build something realistic and yet playable, to include lighting and functionalities in manifold and interesting, sometimes less conventional ways.

Scale

What they call the “Large City Scale” – a way of building significantly larger than any traditional Lego City scales are typically designed in – allows the builders to optically enhance the differences in size and dimensions of vehicles, trains and buildings to what they consider as close to realistic as possible.

SNOT
(“Studs Not On Top”) techniques are being used widely, but not exhaustingly by the three builders, who are not afraid to show some studs here and there. Especially landscaping works quite well with studs.

Building Time

This is very hard to determine, as certain builds have been around way before the event, and others have been built more specifically for the opportunity of Bricky Way 2018. However, the decision to have a joint layout together in Hungary was made a good year ago.”

Thanks for looking!

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... just some good music was missing :-)...
Photo taken during a train testing weekend with ER0L.

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... on its maiden voyage :-)... CN & CITGO Unit Train

CITGO Liquid Gas Tank Cars

Having equally designed rolling stock for your trains really does a nice job to achieve a good degree of realism, I thought, and was happy enough to find 10 pieces I had thought of immediately as ends for liquid gas tank cars. For now, I made three of them and I’m considering building another two.

CN Caboose

A pretty classic looking CN Caboose constitutes the end of train. Here, I found a way to do the brick-built lettering of CN’s website, which I thought was a welcome feature on this design. The caboose can be very well illuminated with an integrated 9V Light & Sound Box and two double lights. The tail lights’ bases are some new red light bricks. By displacing the thin 33 degree slopes on the roof by half a stud (on the pics, it’s still one stud – I changed that), those tail lights can be turned on independently.
Like this, the whole train’s light is based on additional battery boxes and does not depend on the trains speed (just as the diesel engine). That way, idling is more realistic.

Everything is done with the 9V stuff from the 90s. I don’t currently own any Power Functions equipment.

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Footage taken at the Lego Convention “Zusammengebaut 2016” in Borken, Hessen, Germany, where ER0L, Gábor and me had a joint layout titled ‘Route 66 & Lerner Airfield’.

Everything was coordinated via e-mails and phone calls beforehand; we met for the first time in ‘real life’ at the Convention.

Video interview with us by the "Zusammengebaut" hosts (in German):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHMfEORASSk

Builds:

ER0L: www.flickr.com/photos/er0l/
-> Landscape: left section of the layout
-> Route 66, V8 Diner, Shell Gas Station, Tire Store, most of the smaller vehicles, moving School Bus, Diesel Train Engine, Canadair, Sea King, Aircraft Tug and Airport Fire Truck

Gábor Horvath: www.flickr.com/photos/gabor_horvath
-> Landscape: middle section of the layout
-> Route 66, Car Repair & Junkyard, RC Bus & Tanker Truck, some smaller vehicles

Me:
-> Landscape: right section of the layout
-> Route 66 (the more elevated portion), Lerner Airfield & Tower, all plant life including cactea in ‘good old green’, most of the trucks, pick-up trucks, Business Jet, MD-11 & DHL aircraft.

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