I finally got around to doing a little more scenery work on my layout.  I'm extending it railroad west a few feet at a time.  Maybe one of these days I'll even plant some trees instead of looking at a barren desert!  There's nothing especially unusual about what I am doing, but maybe it will be interesting and/or useful to somebody out there.

I'll make this post short and sweet, and then add another meaty one with description and photos.

I'm hopefully going to be putting the reverse loops into one side of the layout in the next couple weeks and thought I should ask the question - where is it best to put the insulators?  I planned to put them immediately after each turnout and isolate the entire loop, but is this recommended or as long as I have plenty of track for the locos to be entirely within the isolated area all that is important?  I assume the latter, but can a reversing section be too long as well?

    I am a G scale modeler with a front yard layout. At the various holidays, I run my trains for the neighborhood kids. Halloween I ran a modified Bachmann 4-6-0 decorated for the evening. During the Christmas holidays I like to run a Santa train when my schedule allows. The last several years I have run a variety of trains, but mostly a USA Trains passenger set from 2000 that runs well.

Here's the area I am thinking about for an N Scale Layout. It used to host a bar area in my Home Theater Area. It's shape think would work well for a build up, I'd like to hear opinions and suggestions.