Russ Segner
Bill Scheef’s Wind River Railway logging layout
Most of us spend a lot of time planning and building our dream layout. Sometimes, however, it comes time to tear one down and sell or give away special parts. What do you do with pieces of a marvelous layout which is being taken down?
The incline lands in the Wind River yard.
As your Superintendent, I get frequent calls from families who need to dispose of a layout. Right now, some of us are removing parts of one of the very finest logging layouts I have ever seen. Parts of it will go to the Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad and Logging Museum. The mechanism, sound and lights are all intact.
Although it’s 11′ long, it is movable.
It has been moved once before and, although it is Sn3, changing the track to HO, HOn3 or On30 is all that is needed to make it the centerpiece of any layout. Contact me if you are interested at 206-200-2211.
The tram house is at the top of the incline.
We had a long discussion about this same exact topic last winter at the Shoreline clinic.
The conclusion was – the time to think about moving or disposing of your layout is before construction begins.
Are there logical interfaces where the layout can be broken apart? Will the pieces fit through the door of the layout room, and of the house? Is there documentation on the wiring?
Once your layout is built in-place, usually the only way to move or dispose of it is a scene we’re all too familiar with – sawzalls, wrecking tools, jackhammers, and dumpsters.