This photo shows the condition of Patsburg Westend around Thanksgiving just after the "earthquake".
Here is a photo of how Patsburg Westend looks today. Still not finished but progress is being made. It took some time for me to find a satisfying arrangement of the buildings, however, this is the arrangement I came up with. The brick paver streets are now in place. I used a Dept. 56 product for streets. Since I model late 1940 - late 50 some parts of cities back then still had street paved with brick. I like this look for the streets in this part of my town.
Still have to connect wiring for lighting buildings and for street lights. I've already run the wires from the barrier block on my control stand to a 10 inch piece of 027 tinplate track which is located at what used to be a park which is caty cornered in this photo. I've connected 6 lockons to this piece of track. One lockon is the power feed and the remainder will supply short wire runs to each building I plan to illuminate. I could have installed a barrier block in place of the track but the track with lockon is much easier ... plus I can have an illuminated 4 wheel caboose sit on the track as if it were a park. It's a win win situation!
I also have city background that will connect with the present background and continue around the back of this scene. Just in the former Westend scene I included the use of a mirror in the very back between the 3 story apartment building and the building with the Miller Engineering sign. This time a angled the mirror slightly to capture the reflection more effectively. I've also created a cool little nook ( not visible here ) using yet another angled mirror. I'll try to get a photo of that soon. 
To see a quick video of
A short video of Christmas shop with blinking sign.
