Dismantling of the layout

After dismantling the layout of a friend in 2014, I used to wonder who would remove the screws from mine every time I screwed another screw in. I told this to my good friend, Hein, and it polluted his brain with the same thought. So it was, that Hein visited from The Netherlands for two weeks in March 2026 to help me dismantle my layout. Here he is removing one of my screws.

We crated up the upper level of the storage yard into a custom shaped box 12' long.

Later we decided that it was just too big, so we opened up the crate and dismantled all the tracks!

The operation was powered by coffee, Dutch cheese, and at the end of the day, some cocktails and a meal made by Debbie.

Experiments with power tools confirmed my suspicions that the vibrations were too intense for buildings to survive.

The bridge survived some heart breaking cutting up of the valley with a reciprocating saw.

Photo by Debbie Broderick

so the bridge was boxed up to be a diorama in our new home.

Waterfall chunks were also cut out:

but the cliff walls just folded and crumpled and were trashed.

Photo by Debbie Broderick

The terraced vineyard was cut out and crated up.

Debbie helped pull up hundreds of grapevines.

Photo by Debbie Broderick

Soon we could walk through the area that was once part of the valley

Mountains were subjected to tectonic forces

The Bw was not spared the destruction either...

The room started getting bigger

And the mound of wood to be burnt grew to an enormous size:

This is how Gleis 1 of the S-Bahn came to an end:

We moved packed totes and crates to the carport too...

Numerous small cuts and bruises were repaired with alcohol.

The German train signal replica was also taken down, see the update at the end of https://cabin-layout.mixmox.com/2016/10/German-Light-signal.html