Mark, my background is an engineer so my tendency is to gather data to make decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed Jeff's post on the db work and the resulting comments. I did decide to put in a turnout for the extra siding and put homasote over the new section of 1x5.5 pine I am using. As typical I have to do a bit of fiddling to get things to line up vertically and update sections I goofed on. Way easier to start from scratch than add in track sections. I painted backdrops for that area last week and then decided if I have to fiddle around to get those in, I might as well make a real mess. ; )
Keep posting on your layout. I am enjoying your progress.
BTW I have to laugh there is an insurance commercial with people leaving stuff on the top of their cars and I just did the same thing with one of my backdrops I had put it on top of my van to dry overnight. The next day I left to do errands and totally forgot about it. I saw it on the street on my way home - never noticed it flying off the top of my van. Both the CEO and kids saw something lying in the street but just left it there. Amazing no one drove over it and there was no noticeable damage to the 2x8 piece of tempered board.
Jeff
