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And the shelf isn’t a rectangle, its depth shrinks down to about 25 centimetres so one end of the loop would have to be tighter. My small shelf is about 30 centimetres deep, so my maximum turn radius would be less than 15 centimetres, ideally more like 12.
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Track layout software (at least, RailModeller Express) comes with track databases, so you can just pick a manufacturer and drop track into a layout. The options are RailModeller Express and RailModeller Pro, which is the paid version of RailModeller Express.
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But how to figure out what tracks I need?Īctually first, the layout software! I’m doing this on a MacBook, so I needed something that ran on Mac OS. Inspired by this European mountain scene, I figured I could get a nice little loop, a tunnel, and maybe a couple of spurs out of the small area. So I’m going to put together a shelf-sized Z scale railroad!įirst, the layout. And I discovered Z scale, which is about 2.5 times smaller than the very popular HO scale. We don’t have space to set up a large set like that.īut what we do have is a shelf. 30 years later, those boxes of tracks, locomotives, rolling stock, and the odd bit of scenery now live in my attic.

We inherited it from my Uncle Harry, who had a room-sized HO scale setup, and it lived in our basement for a few years before being disassembled and put into boxes.
