Layout Cleaned Up & Things Are Changed Around A Bit

Well, after that dusty fallout from the renovation drywall, my cleanup of the layout is finished, done over the course of a few days.  Certainly not 8 work hour days or anything like that, but probably about 6 or 7 hours of actual working time.

The whole layout surface has been vacuumed, so it looks pretty good now, although bits of gravel and some scenery unintentionally made it's way into the vacuum.  And the buildings and structures have all been cleaned off as well.  And I also ran the CMX Track Cleaner around for a while to clean up the rails...again.

Changed a few things around on the layout while I was at it.  I changed locations of some of the industrial structures.  It's pretty easy for me to do that as 3 of the industries take up the same dimensional footprints as each other.  Mounted on the same size pieces of MDF creates kind of a "structure module", so I can just slide back the rail joiners that connect each structure module to the rail spur and then lift out the whole structure and rail spur.  Really, I could swap them around any time I wanted.  It takes me about 5 minutes to disconnect, lift out, replace and reconnect a structure module.

Here's the left end corner of the layout as it looked before with Mid-West Plastics as the industry.

And just a couple of minutes later, here's that same location with entire the industry module removed in one piece for clean-up/maintenance

And a couple minutes after that, my auto-parts plant has been moved into that location, easily dropping into place and fitting right in to the overall scene.

The parts plant had been at the other end of the layout.

And down at that other end, where the parts plant used to be, it looked like this...

...that is until I've re-located the Mid-West Plastics plant into that spot.

Swapping the locations of the two industries was quite simple, took me less than 10 minutes, and kind of gives the layout a bit of a different look without needing to acquire anything extra.

Now, with everything cleaned up and relocated, I'll just have to start getting freight cars and engines back onto the layout.