After 20 years of construction, this is the time of deconstruction ….

My model railway at Mount Riverview has to be taken apart.

This is after the wagons have been packed away and the buildings removed.

Now the deforestation has occurred.

Now the tracks are being torn up ….

I spent the day at our old house, in the cellar pulling apart the model railway.  It was bit sad.  Odd, also, remembering the struggles to get this point working, that bit of scenery to look right, etc.

Overall my verdict is that I did a good job, but I certainly wouldn’t do it the same way ever again, or advise anyone to do the same thing.  I copied what Dad had done in Liverpool (UK), rather than using modern techniques, ideas and modelling gear.  It would have been so much easier if I had done it differently.  Sometimes you simply shouldn’t repeat the experiences of the past.

If (and it’s not certain) I build another model daily, what will I do?  Another Scale 7 model, but portable, smaller and linear (rather than circular)?  Gauge 3 (in the garden possibly)?  S7 in the garden?  If I go to G3, or decide not to build another railway, what should I do with the stuff which I have now?

So many questions, no answers.