Not today, but yesterday....
We had a whole house 14KW power generator installed. In order for the electricians to reach the main breaker box to do some re-wiring/cabling in the basement, I had to remove a portion of the layout. But, that wasn't too much of a problem....I had designed that corner to be removable and each of the four 90-degree curve routes had been built on their own rigid frame.
However....(there's always at least one 'however', isn't there?)
This was the first time I had disassembled the whole corner since it was constructed. When I laid the cork roadbed on one of the curved routes, I had laid it right across the separation joint at one end! Fortunately, a few swipes of a sharp box cutter blade took care of that. That was my 'Daily Duh!' for Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
The whole house generator is a tremendous peace-of-mind purchase. If you haven't considered it, you might want to. The major winter storm damage and associated l-o-n-g power outage we had around here last Christmas was the deciding factor. Of course, as my wife wryly pointed out, now that we have it, we'll probably never need it!! Isn't that the way it often goes?? About 40 years ago my Dad finally succumbed to the run of winter snows he'd been shoveling through. The next door neighbor completely gave up and was moving to Florida. He offered his little Toro snow blower pup(?-by today's standards) to Dad for $20. Dad bought it, hung it up in the garage.....and for the rest of his life never needed to use it again. He took credit for the best $20 spent in that part of the country, chasing away the snow!
Yeah, right, Dad.
Today on the layout?....putting the corner back together....about a 10-minute job.