Found a few hours to work on the layout this morning. I got (most of) the platform tracks installed. I only installed two sticks of flex each, since the west throat is still a very distant project, and I want to keep some flexibility. Regardless, those two sticks allowed me to drop the second set of power feeds for each track, so they are fully powered.
There's a third stick of flex installed loose at the end of each track. That gives me enough room to store trains, as illustrated. To help hide the fact that the last bit of track is loose, I put the city back up.
Far from a final product, but it sure gives an impression of what's to come.