Thanks Ed, great inspiration here at TRW
So i got my 10 or so bucket items done. One was the caboose track. initially I laid out the trackage using my fast tracks built #4 turnouts,
but in the end I had to take out 2 of them and replace them with the altas #5's that I also have. The #4 near the top and entering the tail track was creating and S in the trackage and a lot of my locos were not going thru it well.
The entry turnout was giving me trouble with the diverging route, the truck would hit the frog and derail. trouble with the diverging rail guard. I tried a longer one to direct the loco's off the frog but in the end I butchered the turnout , so in went the #5. All my loco like this arrangement better.
Got some track bumpers installed and powered up the power plant holding tracks. So little backwards travel, but progress none the less.