Good pictures B. For those not familiar with trackwork, building tangent track goes pretty fast with a large well supplied crew. Curves take a bit more time as the rail spacing is wider and you have to prevent kinks at the joints. Then comes switches ... construction of a switch takes (at least) 4 times longer due to the track geometry and the points fitting against the stock rail correctly. This weekend is the first time that the crew has had to build two new switches within a few feet of each other. Yes, the lower yard has switches that are fairly close but they were built months or even years apart. Constructing two new switches is the reason that two days work does not produce track feet as tangent work.
Brendans second to last photo shows how nice the spur is coming together with the new turnouts. Looking northward, the distant switch will connect the woods track that will diverge to the left. The foreground switch will serve the car storage building (straight ahead) and feed the coal dock, roundhouse and turntable (to the right). Harry would love what's happening is his old backyard.
