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Tugboat and Mark,

I only had room for one siding.  It's a nice long one, though.  I had a space along one wall for a 12 inch wide board (11 1/2), while all the rest are 10 (9 1/2) inches.  The small yard is three 10 inchers, doweled, glued, and clamped together.   Also, I only needed a total of four switches.

Five years ago, I only had Lionel 022 switches.  I used these three for the yard, plus one Gargraves switch for the siding.  I have since used only Ross switches for my table layout expansion.  Here are the controllers, located in a corner, underneath the yard.   They are simply threaded off the wood and through the louvers.  It's pretty dark under there, so you don't notice the wires.  Otherwise, I would pull them back out of sight.  They are all powered directly, all the way back to one of the two ZW auxillary power posts.  There are no issues with "bouncing."  Naturally, that wire is on top, out of sight.

If you mean a "drop down for passenger cars/caboose" is a way to step down lighting in your cars, I recommend Gunrunner John's module, which can be found at Henning's Trains.  I replaced all of my 10 passenger cars lights with those modules, and LED light strips.  Takes a load off my mainlines power demands. 

I love shelf layouts.  

Jerry