… the picture on the front of the Nov. issue? Maybe a certain project RR, only with a steam loco, a tree, and an 0-5-0 [a hand]?
Pretty sure that is the Beer Line modular layout from about last winter(?). They added some trees (hence the connection) and made the scene look totally different. Don’t know whose hand it is.
You got it right, I think that the brick building behind the tree is a new one.