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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G [Anyway, the question is: How do you know when the right time to tear down your layout is? [/quote] Excellent question. I asked myself this for a year before I had a clear answer. I got tired of the trackplan and the system (Marklin) and the space (unfinished garage) No move, no great catastrophe.... The old pike was an L shaped 16' X 9' Marklin layout built in an unfinished garage. It was pretty much complete. It featured scratchbuilt catenary, a 5 foot deep canyon featuring handcarved plaster rocks.. It was beautiful. Building the layout against the garage door in an unfinished garage was a big mistake. Things rusted, cool air caused things to warp and all sorts of other grief. On the operational side... I got tired of the 5% grades and the track plan that did not allow for operation. I built the layout after being out of the hobby for many years. It was a huge improvement over the layouts I had when I was a kid, but ultimately I decided to tear it out. It was a difficult decision to make. It took several weeks of photographing and generally messing around before I actually attacked it with a sawz all. Didn't take long to completely tear it apart. I tried to save scenery sections for later use....I ended up shuffling them around for months before throwing all but one small section away. I did save and plan to re-use structures, details, trees, rolling stock that wasn't Marklin (it's a long story), wood etc...All the rolling stock and Marklin gear went on Ebay for a massive past life clearance. The new layout is just now at the track laying stage in an insulated, room built inside the garage. Modeled after US prototype using DCC. Trackplan is double deck with an operation plan already worked out. It has taken one year to get to this point after tearing out the old one. One thing that made it easier to tear out the old set-up was the excitement about the new layout. It was still pretty dififcult at times. Good luck to anyone taking out a layout for reasons other than a move. Guy
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