Very nice detail on that theatre and platform. While not on the layout yet, I spent a few hours extracting insulated flex wires from a couple of discarded flat cables. We have a passenger elevator in our house. Last year both control cables were damaged. They have about 16 conductors in a mounded ribbon cable. Each cable was about 40 feet long. Initially I was slicing the molded part of the cable. This was very difficult. I found that there was a series of nylon or similar strings mounded into the cable and by pulling on these one at a time (with leather work gloves), they would open a slot in the mounded jacket and each individual wire could then be pulled out. I now have (I think) all the wire I need for the layout. Even the smallest wires have over 9 strands of copper so they should be plenty big for signal and lighting circuits. There were enough larger gage wires for the track power bus and feeders. With the price of copper these days, it was well worth the efforts to do the extraction.
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