You do have another option. Marry the mother so you can update and run the layout where it stands.
LOLOLOL. That is the best answer given yet [bday]
Ahh…but then he’d have to sell all 5 cars[;)]
Steve
While looking at the pictures of the under side as well as the top you can divide it up in 3 sections, put line up marks on the wood under it and then cut and split the set up with removal of very little track. as for the wires mark then with maskin tape and put numbers on them and clip them. the only thing you might have to spend time doing is touch up work on the scenery. doing wood work for as many yeads as i have i dont see the problem in moving it.
I take it that you either want to or have to move this.Okay. Please, don’t tell me that this layout is located in a basement and you live in a third-floor apartment!
It appears that this layout butts up against a wall so the first thing you’re gonna have to do is saw it away from the wall; if this platform is joined to the wall framework you might just as well stop reading right here and exercise the good old principle of “GIVE UP” because you are asking for trouble. This, of course, is going to depend upon just how it is attached to the wall. Assuming that it can be freed from the wall then the next problem is going to be getting it out of the structure.
Most hallways and stairways–like up out of a basement–are built to a width of 40-44 inches however architects have a perverted penchant for butting stairways against a wall and 14 feet is just a little long to get around a corner. Three feet is just a mite wide for standard door width–32 inches–but there may be an arcadia door or the like that would allow it to be taken out onto a patio. If that is not an alternative then consider popping a window and using three men and a boy you could probably take it outside and into a truck or trailer in that way.
Then there is the matter of getting it into its new structure which could present a problem in and of itself.