Thanks gents! The interest is what keeps the motivation alive.
As far as what has been modeled: the entire mainline is laid and signaled as far as Yaphank with all sidings and freight customers put in. The Central Branch as far as Babylon station (for RF-64 runaround purposes) has rails and signals laid as well.
...which leads me to answering the question about Grumman: I just half-modeled Grumman station not that long ago, and have a temporary tarmac slab laid down to mark where the facility will go. By this stage in the game, Grumman no longer had rail service (last car was spotted in 1981 according to my carload reports), but certainly still had a lineside presence.
That said, Fairchild Hiller (Republic) in Farmingdale still took cars through 1985 and is thus served by the RF-56 on this route. I do plan on eventually making the push to laying rails to LD (Riverhead), which means that I'll certainly put in the Naval Spur for Calverton, a location of which Grumman was also of course involved with. They took their last cars in 1985 (just 2!) from an extra crew who was tasked with running a pair of 1500s out to drop them off, and ultimately pick up a few weeks later. For the sake of my operations system, which is patterned off of how we operate the Bangor & Leiver with car turnover Google Docs, I have boosted these numbers a bit to provide some more interesting ops.
I love questions! Thanks for the interest.
Here's a quick shot from a few days ago. I ran an RF-Extra from Yard A (not modeled yet, but the Montauk Cutoff is modeled right up to that point) to Farmingdale (PW [Pinelawn] Team). This was taken after setting out the cars for tonight's RF-56 and spotting a bulkhead in the team yard. Republic Aviation and the airport are behind the photographer here.
SPECTACULAR once again.
Do you have shots of Island Container (called something different back then maybe)?
Also I happen to spend a lot of my time with the Lower Montauk Branch/Montauk Cutoff as part of my job (MTA). You have any shots? Or barring that, any Floral Park?
Thanks a trillion!!! This is the best.