Updated 2/7/2016:
Over this weekend, I did a little work on the layout:
- Picked up some Plastruct for the Strip Steel building at Cool Trains.
- Did a little more re-organizing and drawing correction for the manual.
- Showed the layout to my sister and brother-in-law who were in town for a short visit.
- Cut and installed a 12" straight (replacing the 9.5" one) on the Coal Mine Spur. Started working the placement of the curve. As you can see in the photo below, I am going to have to re-align the subroadbed.
The re-alignment was not the desired outcome. Unfortunately, when the location of the bridge approach tracks was finally correctly fixed, the need for a re-alignment became obvious. So all that careful template work was for nothing, and I am back to fitting pieces of plywood under the track to support track. 
I am going to have to get creative about this.
George
