Progress On The Small N Layout

Things haven't moved as fasat as I had hoped, but I finished tracklaying and basic electrical wiring, and everything's been debugged and is working properly. At the same time, although I didn't originally plan to run passenger trains on it, I began to think about running short passenger trains, with a small shelter and plaform on one part of the layout. This led me to study short Amtrak trains, inclulding the Boston sections of the Lake Shore, Trains 448-449. Here is an example I set up to test how that train would fit on the layout:

As you can see, I've even added some scenery to one corner. As far as small shelters are concerned, I've found a few in my area (both photos mine). Here is Goleta, north of Santa Barbara on the Surfliner route:

Here are smaller shelters on the Glendale platform:

An eBay seller called Model Railway Gadgets offers a somewhat similar shelter in both N and HO scale (photo from eBay site).

It's based on the Mertolink shelter in El Monte, CA.