As the rails were soldered at the joiners I had to carefully heat these up to remove the plain track from the turnout, but before I did a quick photo was in order:
After a short while, with all joints unsoldered, track started to be lifted, no doubt due to be recovered on a seaside miniature railway somewhere! All electrics, switches, plugs etc have also been recovered for re-use. In fact the board itself is now stored back in the same place it had been, with thoughts of how it might be used in the future (the distant future I hasten to add!).
Although theoretically part of my great sort out to enable use of the railway cupboard as a workbench location, it hasn't actually made any more space but gave a strange satisfaction I had done something, just as I achieved a few days ago when I stuck new axleboxes to a 4mm scale kit-built van prior to sale!
Finding what can be disposed of and sold is a tricky one. I have to remind myself it is about the space not the money (useful though that is). Interestingly I have found that most of the things that are going belong to a period some time ago, or have been bought very recently during my indecisive years. Not a lot of 7mm scale material has been identified yet, however I have had to make a decision that O14 will have to wait for a long time so I have put up for sale a job lot of parts I had stashed away, in the form of a track starter kit, turnout levers, built skip wagon and a bonus of a Phoenix figure.
Edit in response to Skylon's question.... it would have looked something like this:
Hi Colin,
ReplyDeleteInteresting to see the end to end Misterton Fen. How did you envision it scenically?
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ReplyDeleteThanks Colin!
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