[UPDATE 12.9.20]
Amazingly, it's been 6 months later... and no real progress to show for it. Thanks to Quarter Gauger 48 for asking me about this layout in another thread so I need to make some progress.
Didn't seem that long, but it was. Have shared the "ground space" with the Halloween and now Christmas layouts the past few months, which is hampering my access to certain points. That being said, have bought all of my tracks, corkbeds, etc and am ready to go. Also lucked out and was able to procure two of the new MTH DCS remotes from Ready to Roll Trains in Miami. I need to finish this darn thing that I've been talking about since we moved here in August... of 2019.
Here are some photos that I took today for an "update"