I recently acquired a single track lift bridge (From Custom Model Builders) and need to find a plausible location to put it on the Ultimate P&A Layout (it will also be used as a part of the Interim P&A Layout but as the name implies, it's an interim plan, and will not follow anything particular on the map, but the modules built for it will be relocated as part of the Ultimate P&A Layout). I was wondering, since I'm tweaking history a bit by

For those who have and/or operate on multi-deck model railroads I have some questions.

1) For those businesses and industries served by the railroad that are on the upper deck(s), do you place the car-card boxes on the deck benchwork they are on,or are they on the lowest deck and labeled for the town above.

2) If they are located on the upper-decks with the actual town, do you worry about the fascia height (which is in part dictated by the thickness of the benchwork) so that the top of the car card does not protrude above the top of the fascia. 

 Someone please help me!  I've posted that I'm about to get a new and large modeling area in my new home.  The basement is 19' x 51'.  I'm planning on putting the layout all the way around the perimeter (shelf style) for continuous running, but the sceniced area of the layout is roughly 19' x 35' in a U shape.  This is a very large amount of space, why does it seem so small???  I would like to incorporate three cities into the layout and have some green space between them.

Gents,

New to the forum and I appreciate everyone's genuine and useful attitude.  I have a 'bonus room' over the garage that has a floor space of 14 ft x 40 ft.  The problem is that there is a 4 ft high knee wall on each of the long sides that slope inward and up from the top of the knee wall at a 45 deg angle to a flat peak at 9 ft high.  I would appreciate your collective noodling on how best to get a background for the model.  thanks so much.