Good to hear your making progress Dot. I was getting worried that the renos spiraled out of control or burnt out from thought of redoing trainroom and no more railroad anymore. Seemed like Marc became MIA after the thought of redoing layout. Didn't know if you became the same way. I think once the train room is ready and a clean slate to work with, you will be energized even more so.
I can attest. After looking at layout and thinking about it, and pondering of redesign everytime I looked at it, go down to work on it only to spend 10 minutes looking at the current design, all over the course of a year!!, I was almost burnt out from thinking. Flipped flop a couple times, stood my ground one day and said nope, it is staying as is, then one day I said enuf, I am not happy with parts of layout. So I tore up and restarted. I almost got burned out from the 3 weeks of rewiring, but know I am in the cork roadbed laying stage for the mainline and since came up with an area to put a small depot (walthers 'pella' depot or the Santa Fe depot)
which will represent a retored historic landmark now visitor informaton center for my RR town. I will have a small section of track to hold a "restored" 1940s style reefer (that the misses gave me for xmas that I couldn't fit into my modernday car fleet) and I will pick up an old wood caboose to have parked on display to the public. I just like how ideas come together to add more character to my town.