Elliott I really appreciate what you're saying about lugging heavy modules. When I made my timesaver I had one specific intentional priority purpose. That was to make that thing as lightweight and ridiculously easy to move as possible. I succeeded beyond my wildest imagination!
I wish that I could take full credit for thinking about that rolling cart that I attached the layout to. It was a complete by chance accident. I walked into a Harbor Freight store one night saw that cart and bells started ringing in my head! The layout itself is incredibly light at 16 pounds. But of course I still had to haul the Transformer the command control stuff the cars and a couple of buildings. I bought a couple of plastic containers that fit perfectly on to the middle and lower shelf of that rolling cart. I can roll everything in at one time!
In fact, a couple of guys started swearing and cussing at me as they saw me leaving the Carmel Show pulling that entire assembly with one finger as I was walking down the hallway. They laughed afterwards and said you are brilliant! These are two of the three guys that were hauling in gigantic modules for about 30 minutes passing back and forth in front of me a dozen times.
I thought back to my days of being with a modular Club in Billings Montana. Greatest guys in the world! We lugged that lay out into the largest shopping mall in the state of Montana near Christmas time. The interaction with the public was fun. But getting that layout in and out of there was Zero fun.
That is why when I decided I would like to do something like that again I was going to make a very small modular setup that just me could get in and out of places easily easily easily.
