Got any pics or links to pics of that Wilkes Barre area? There were plenty of freight house scenes, although they were dwindling by the 60's. I research LV stuff occasionally too.
I do have some plans for the freight house area along 8th street in Reading. It'd fit really well in your space. I think I actually designed it as an L shape with one leg being staging, as a spare room switching layout. I'll have to dig those drawings out later.

Hey MrBill,

These are the pics I refer too. Scroll down a bit to the LV in Wilkes-Barre and PRR sections. Very cool pics.

Looking to seeing the plans you had drawn up. Using the 7' shelf as staging is a great idea!

www.gingerb.com/cnj_wilkes-barre_station.htm

The area I referred to are the the two double track sets in the middle. This is a tracing of a 1913 Reading city atlas. By the 50's the set in the middle had been buried, or removed to make room for trucks backing up to the main freight house, and a new narrow transfer dock built along the two lower tracks. I couldn't locate my actual layout drawing, but I was going to redraw one anyway.
You can see some dimensions in there of 2x8 feet to get an idea for HO scale. The funky L thing over the throat is the swinging bridge with the connecting little bridge to the main freight house platform. For a switching layout I would simply curve the track going under it to the right 90 degrees to the staging yard.

Crrcoal: Whatever location you decide on, you might find it useful to visit Penn Pilot and study the historical aerial photos of the area. This should give you a good idea of how the railroad, industries, and surrounding land actually fit together. You might be surprise at the large number and variety of industries that were serviced by the railroad in the area you select.

Good luck, Mark

Norristown on the Stoney Creek branch is a good choice. Had a passenger station for the MU cars (Main St), a MU train tie up yard (stub tracks on the map), a team track (parking lot by the MU cars), 2 lumber yards (where the orange roof bldg between Main and Airy is and N of Oak between Markley & the RR), a brewery (Valley Forge Beer, E of Markley, a bakery (Wonder Bread between Ann and Penn E of Markley), a newspaper publisher (World Herald between Ann & Airy E of Markley), a warehouse (A. Duie Pyle S of Main west side of tracks), and asbestos cloth mfgr (N of Oak, west of tracks).

goo.gl/maps/sBbHG