Swing Gate Construction

We have been plugging away at building my swing gate for entrance to the train room. A couple of good friends have come over to lend a hand a building this challenging thing. The challenge is it's curved with three tracks running over it. Well so far the three tracks have added way to much bench work for the gate and when it was swung open it didn't leave to much room for you to walk in. So what we have decided was to remove one track, my switch lead and shorten it to out the switch on the gate. It gives me a shorter yard lead but I was able to gain a few more inch's from off the gate which gave me more room to walk in. The one option that we talked about was removing part of the wall and swinging the tracks a few inches inward to give us a better curve to come at the gate but found it wasn't feasible for all the work involved for a few inch's. So we went with plan B and this is what's shown in the pictures below. We still have a lot of work to do as there is a track below on the gate that comes from the helix into the staging yard below Mitchell yard.