If you have read the P & C RR version 3 page, you'll know that it had to come down first before I could start this one. That took four days.

This first photo shows the entrance into the main layout room which housed P&C RR version 3. You can clearly see the painting on the wall done for the old layout. Also, on the right edge of the photo you can see the ten-level helix used in that layout. Everything except for the helix was taken to the trash dump.

Speaking of the helix, here is the last picture of the unit. I couldn't keep it for the P & C RR version 4. I offered it for sale on my previous web site, and although I got lots of positive comments, nobody bought it. I had no choice but to eventually destroy it and take it to the trash dump also. It still pains me, because I spent a lot of time building it, and it was solid and ran trains beautifully. To see how I built this helix, see the P&C RR version 3 page dedicated to it.

The main room had a two-door closet in it. I had already removed the small section of wall between the two doors and the doors themselves during the construction of P & C RR version 2. I also put the decorative edging around the remaining door frame.

Well, for P & C RR version 4 the entire closet had to go away. It was going to be a walkway and layout area. This, then, began my first serious attempt at home remodeling. I removed the drywall (as seen in the photo), and next removed the studs. This was not a load-bearing wall, so nothing to worry about here.

This photo is from the inside of this closet. The wall behind my Kubicki ex-factor bass guitar is the wall shared with the closet of the master bedroom, and it will be removed. Once gone, this will make a small, 3-foot wide walkway between the two rooms.

This is the view of the closet in the master bedroom. The wall behind the clothes in the closet is the shared wall between the closets of the two rooms. The master bedroom in this house was quite large. When we bought the house, it had four bedrooms. One tiny bedroom enclosed most of the area shown in this photograph. We had the builder remove that one to make it one large master bedroom. The remodeling idea here was to simply rebuild that wall, making the house into a four-bedroom home again. By the way, this whole remodeling idea was actually first proposed by my wife; I, initially, wasn't all that thrilled about taking on such a major project.

February 27th, 2003

The wall between the two closets and the studding above the closets has been removed. The photo shows the view from the master bedroom. Carpet has also been removed from the two rooms.

This view shows the entrance into the main model railroad room. Soon this will be the only entrance into the remodeled space. I took the door and the door frame out completely. It will be rebuilt later on. The demolition work in the two rooms was completed on March 1st, 2003. The last things I did was taking down all the base boards and the rooms' lights.