Foxtrot, here are some suggestions related to Albany Union station. Books on the D&H and the New York Central have photos of it. There are a lot of views of the area back of the station in Morning Sun Books'
Trackside in the Albany N.Y. Gateway 1949-74 with Gerrit Bruins . An article on the Hudson River in
National Geographic a few decades ago had an unusual photo in which you had see some of the freight spurs back of the D&H Building near Union Station.
Roger Hinman explained how he scratchbuilt a model of Albany Union Station in the February 2005 issue of
Mainline Modeler.
The latest issue of the on-line modeling magazine posted by the New York Central System Historical Society has an article on Vic Roman's Albany-area HO layout; at least one of the photos shows his version of the station area. I saw it a few years ago, near Schenectady; it's beautiful. Vic's layout was also featured in
Model Railroader within the last year or two.Jim Cesare in the same area has built one in HO including the lower level for D&H trains. Vic and Jim are two of the three men who run CH&R Structures. They offer kits for the two NYC switch towers at either end of Albany Union Station and are in the very early stages of planning a kit for the station itself. See
http://www.chrstructures.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for more information on their kits.
If you search the Internet for JP's Trains in Latham, NY and examine that shop's website you'll find a link to the website of the Hudson-Berkshire Division of the Northeastern Region of the National Model Railroad Association. Their website has had photos of several model railroads set in the Albany area. So does anoher site you can reach from JP's Trains' site.