So now that all the benchwork is largely complete, I am working to tie in a switching yard that I inherited from a good friend.  This yard will be a stand in for the KCS Baton Rouge yard, and replaces the two track fiddle yard I had in this location.  And yes, all the stuff of the filing cabinet stays - the household COO has mandated it's continued storage.  I plan to put a small plywood shelf over teh yard with some under cabinet lights to help se ethe end of the yard:

The idea is to run the yard lead through a typical Louisiana cypress swamp scene to hide it's lack of scale distance from the Exxon Refinery/Polyolefins plant as well as to bring a signature habitat type to life.  Plus the idea of building cypress trees in N scale appeals to me.  The general area where the connection is to be made is here:

The turnouts above are part of a track laying experiment trying to create a crossover in the yard lead to aid in operational issues.  By switching the connection to the straight through leads, I ended up with this, which was a quick proof of concept, not the finished design:

Then we started building the bridge.  The proof is in front - the actual stringers are in back:

and finally some trestle bents take shape:

All of this is a necessity, of course, since the switching yard is getting full