As you may remember, I built this 8 by 8 around the tiniest room ever to kinda have a place for my show trains to pass by after they ( in my imagination ) left Johnny's Winterquarters all bright and shiny for the new season. So I imagine this as a smallish town on the Milwaukee Road, 1973, ( '73 because that is the year the GCT had the most flatcars, so I could run the bulk of my many wagons ) somewhere between Baraboo and Milwaukee.
Here's one of the first test placements of buildings before there was track or a highway.
This shows the edge of the next module added and the road and a culvert. I don't think there is a triple track any where between Baraboo and Milwaukee, but that's what I needed, 8 feet, three tracks to park the GCT in three cuts.
Here's a screen cap at the end of a run by video showing module two connected to module three, showing the "town".
A view from the crossing, it has crossing signals now, towards "town".
A shot of a building second story where the "interior" is royalty free pix printed from the internet.
And the "town" just after dusk after the GCT has passed by and a CNW mixed freight heads back to the yard.