Finally Started

So today I finally managed to drag myself up the loft and start packing/dismantling my old layout. I think I was putting it off because it seems a shame to undo the work I’ve done and because I didn’t know where to start! Anyway, I decided to start with packing away all the rolling stock. I have some plastic towers of drawers with wheels on that I think should be OK for moving if I put some tape round them to keep the drawers from sliding out.

I kept the packaging for the Peco points so I can use this to protect them. I wish I had kept the boxes that the Flexi track came in. I have one new pack but all the salvaged track will have to be tied up and put in bubble wrap (I ordered a big roll of it today).

I have found most of the boxes for the rolling stock but there’s still one that is eluding me. Identifying which wagons or coaches go in which box was a bit tricky but a bit of Googling the product code helped.

Some of it I bought unboxed so again they will have to be carefully cocooned in bubble wrap. I’m not sure how I’m going to package the scenery yet.

The boxes seem to be fitting in OK and I’ve tried to stop them sliding about with various bits and pieces like squashed cardboard.

I think the whole process is going to take a lot longer than I thought so I’m glad I’ve started it. The house move seems very quiet at the moment but these things have a habit of suddenly all coming together and I don’t want to get caught out.