The Move

With the settlement of Brendan's house fast approaching and my shed being as ready as it was going to get, we looked at the winter forecast and picked a day. Monday the 8th of June was to be the day of the move unless the weather turned nasty.
In the week leading up to the 8th the weather forecast was regularly checked. The forecast kept changing, but as the day got closer it seemed to settle down to windy with a chance of showers late in the afternoon, but being Melbourne we took a "we'll see on the morning" approach.
Also during the week preceding the move some dis-assembly work was undertaken. Brendan had to remove an internal wall in his shed to allow everything to come out in large pieces, and of course part of the layout was attached to this wall.
To actually move the layout we ended deciding to use a car transport trailer with a solid deck. I hired this from the local servo and it turned out to be perfect for the task.
Well on the morning the weather that was dished up was very windy but dry. We can work with that. So at about 8:30am we started, I can't say how many trips were made, probably about 10. Due to the fact it was only a short trip we didn't try to cram everything onto the trailer at once, so we loaded to try and cause minimal damage whilst keeping it in large pieces.

Here is one of the loads already to go

Most of the track has been removed at this stage. We are about to pull apart the curved wall and remove the track from within it, to get this view Brendan had to remove an internal wall from the shed which ran left to right across the foreground of this picture.

Early evening and we are still going, just one more internal wall to go, everything else has been removed and transported to it's new home.

Brendan's shed, minus the layout. Just debris and lights left.

To get those internal walls into my shed we needed to remove the end wall cladding and center purlin. This is why I had to leave part of the internal wall unfinished, We just slid the internal wall framing out of the way. In the back ground you can see the jigsaw puzzle that is now my railroad empire. The shed also has "aircell" insulation in the walls which makes a fair bit of difference to the internal temperature vs outside temperature.