Moved?

After driving 30+ miles one way to work everyday we decided to move closer to work.  So now we are in Yuba City CA.  It's been a process but I am finally getting the benchwork back together after moving from Lincoln to Yuba City.  This time I have a smaller space to set up the layout but it's going to work out fine.  Over all this space is 10' x 8' and I have lowered the hight of the layout to 45" from 48" which is just right for operating.

I have built a small room in the garage to put the layout just as I had in Lincoln just this one is two feet narrower so it's a bit more compact as the celling is lower also.  I just moved the shelf sections from off the wall and then mounted them back on the walls just as before.  Only had a small amount of track damaged in the move but it is fixable as well as putting back the roadbed and track on the far back section where I am presently installing the backdrop.

Once the backdrop is in place I can get the roadbed and track all back in and be ready to run some trains.  The VT&S railroad came to be in 1912 when the smelter was moved from Jerome to Clarkdale to allow for the open pit to be expanded as there was copper ore under the smelter.  I don't think moving this layout has been any easier than moving the smelter was a 100 years ago.  Can't wait to get it back to where it was so I can get on with scenery and operation of trains.