Hi.
I'm off to a slow start, but off..Made final decision last night while at an HDepot as to what shelve's materials will be for this small L, switchback in HO, which, instead of the usual 1X4 I'm going 1x3s for grid-frame and risers..Top will be their version of Homasote (I believe) paper-mulch type sound deadening board. Took home 1- fir 1x3x8' $2.40
It will have but one cookie-cutter 4"wide up-down ramp/right of way to valley switching scenes from level, bigger main 6"ish above (main= one big 90deg curve in corner/live depiction of daily L&N RS3 freighter turn unhooking from cars & caboose and motorin' on down the ramp to deliver/collect cars).. Local RR.Co. of small steam reside down here too, engine house, wye into corner under main, Or wye lft /Rgt legs will instead be tracks for coal mine at unseen mid leg..
Jury is still out on that.. It is half fictitious Hagans (type) SB....
Any road (as Ringo says), what is the better/wiser/does it matter/way of supporting the shelves ?......
I've decided to skip the triangular plywood shapes deal, and with either 1x3 or 2x2, run angles from front edge-fascia into molding on wall at floor, making approx. 4-5 per wing of bench.
Or, is it the more hairy job of (if each shelf were say, 1' wide) to make 1'x1'x1'-ish 2"x2" triangles (requiring more wall stud intrusion, after rear stringers' ) ?
Shelve will be about shoulder height. lower level sub roadbed's ground zero will be approx 2" above that on risers..
Mulch tanks,
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