I am looking for feedback in regards to “scenery” planning of sort.  Considering the need for compression and seamless transition from built-up urban scene to un-built area (such has fields, forest, rivers etc.)  Which of the following would you chose?  For the purpose of arguments let say I have the following choices: 

Town A followed by Town B, followed by Town C.   (with short 1 foot transition in between) 

Or 

SP had a specific set of lights. Until the mid 80's (I'm guessing), Cab lights were the gyralights, with the actual headlights on the lower short hood with the red emergency light. While WP had the nose lights and cab lights in opposite positions? Why was this? On the WP locomotives, did both gyralights operate like the SP lights or did only one of them operate in a gyrating manner? I've seen SP lighting where both gyralights oscillate. What was the common practice for this lighting?

Ever wonder what the other modelers shop looks like? Where those scratch built cars, engines & structures are built. I know I do. So, here's my small basement shop 9' X 16'. This small shop houses the table top machinery, work benches and large area's of horizontal storage that hides my tools that I'm constantly looking for.

I thought I'd start a thread on the model railroad shops since we've had so many nice pictures of layouts and rolling stock. It's a bit of a diversion.

Joey,

Stumbled upon your new video on YouTube. What did you call that? No shame? I got the message. I had to drive across town, across the Red River into Bossier City to find a copy. That was great!

Den