I'm going nuts folks.. ok, so I am in the planning stages of my shelf layout. Fortunately before buying and cutting plywood I found out that I don't need as wide a shelf around the ceiling as I had thought. That said.. I'm using Atlas 3 rail track and I have Ross switches. What switch do most of you use for a passing siding? Right now it appears that the 0-72 appears to be the one that gives me the closest parallel track. Sadly here is what I found out and I'm glad that I found it now before cutting plywood. I originally wanted two tracks around the room.. sadly the width of the plywood about blocked out the inner track from viewing from the floor and nearly covered the painted landscape on the wall. Running only 1 track I can get away with a 6 1/2" wide shelf which appears to work great except now I have 1 "round D round" layout and I have to use a ladder to change out the trains. Depending on the switch to create a run around ..in that area alone I would have to widen the base to handle the width of two trains.
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