That was a cool place. I ended up there last august. Did you see the Milwaukee Road snow plow? That plow has a headlight which looks like it came off of one of the box cab electrics.
A lot of times (and you can see that on some stations) the sidings are set lower than the corresponding main tracks. You can put main tracks on the cork and sidings directly on the wood. The siding would be sort off running down from the switch.