Placing Rail Served Industries On Layout Edge

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Can I offer another suggestion for representing the buildings along the front?
Here is a "Concrete Canyon" trackplan
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I must confess I thought this would work with the buildings down the left-hand
side(front) being made out of "Smoked perspex"

This is an interesting concept. I'm still toying with some plans that would have structures on both sides of the track, but just don't know if it would work in the long run.

Being able to look inside the structure and actually see the rolling stock through the wall, is something I'd never thought of doing. Might be worth experimenting with. I think that Plastruc makes Transparent White plastic sheets, that might work for something like this. If the end walls of the structure were brick, concrete or metal and you had a bit of a detailed interior for these structures and detail the transparent wall with I or H beams, it might just work without spoiling the effect of the track side wall being more or less see-through.