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I guess because of age and sentimentality, I wouldn't look only at the monetary side of it.   No doubt you can buy it for far less that it is worth restored and running.

 

Being mostly retired, I wouldn't have any problem dismantling the whle layout for very little in the way of payback.  I would probably trade the work for a few of the pieces I really liked and the benchwork and track.   I would offer to Ebay or list online the other stuff for sale at a 10-20% fee.  That would pay me for my time, get rid of the remaining items at the market price for the owner.  Than to honor the guy that built this small empire, I would probably use a cutoff tool and sabre saw to cut the layout in pieces and remove it.  Than I would probably try to put two sections Maybe 6-8 foot back together.   Looks like it is only 20 inches or so wide in places.

You might than be able to have several of the pieces you like running back and forth on this small shelf layout.  You would have a neat display and honor the guy that built it, I would be sure to get the info on him and make a little sign about the origins of the layout.   It would be  a nice way to keep it alive.  I would be sure to have that Citrus Empire sign and some of his treasured old stuff on the wall.

 

15 years ago or more I went to a yard sale and the owner of the property was 75 years old or so.   His wife was doing the sale.   I talked to guy a bit, I was looking for old 1/24 slot cars at the time, he had none, but offered to show me his train layout.  He had a large HO deal.  The trackwork was nearly completed, but not quite.  The old guy really enjoyed talking and showing it to me.  He was 2 years into parkinson and no longer could work on it.  It had sat like it was for a year or better with no progress.  I ride buy that house now and remember how much he enjoyed talking about it.  We are all going to end up in the same situation and it would be nice if just a part of our stuff survived intact with info about us as the builders. 

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