Andy, Yes I see now. That is a good idea, for either of those locations. I'll keep that in mind as I move along.
Ever since I started making the upper level platform for the station, I have been bothered that the station wouldn't sit parallel to straight track like we normally see. The track at the end of the passing siding made an 'S' curve with a carlength of straight track in the middle. I got the idea of what would it look like if the siding extended across a double track truss bridge when I saw a forum member offer one for sale. I contacted him about possibly purchasing it. Since it is already built up he wanted to deliver it at York or have someone locally buy it. The trip to his house wouldn't have been out of the question except I still don't ride well with my sciatic pain. I finally told him that and to try to sell it to someone else. However, I had a couple GarGraves turnouts I didn't use on the layout. I was really happy that one of them would replace the section of flex track in front of the station. I cut about 3/16" off the one end of the switch and some tie ends off the other end for a good fit. So I have a straight siding now that dead ends at the bridge just as if a double track bridge was replaced with a single track bridge. I ran two test trains last evening without incident. Here is how it looks over head.
The section of Northeastern scribed sheathing will be trimmed a little narrower for the walkway with the to-be-built railing. Andy's staircase idea could be located anywhere along there. Then I will put more scribed sheet for the platform along the end and along the other side of the station. The platform and railing will be a mirror image of this.
Here are a couple more views.
As can be seen, I still need to put in some roadbed for the new track since it is in midair right now. I just wanted to mock it up to see how the concept would look.
