The Track Alignment effort I started in August is still going on

See the additions to the August post...When I finish the scenic stuff and track ballasting I will create a new post about it. 

In the meantime the layout looks like this as of today:

The white pad thing is a new battery light mounted on an old soldering stand that I am using in afternoons when the sun doesn't shine on my train room and office on the east side of my home.