The shelf I'm using I purchased at lowes. Pics of it in my first post, will post better ones when I get a chance. It's about 4 feet long and 10" deep. I covered the top with a piece of Gator foam. I save the foam from packages of items we buy now and again, comes in handy. From my measurements I found my shelf was about an inch too narrow so I added another strip of foam to the back, to make up for it.

When I decided, three years ago, to haul out my HO RR and all it's accessories for a new layout, I discovered that my turntable & pit had suffered damage in the move from my former residence to my current address.  One of the helpers in the move must have decided it was far more rugged than it appeared.  Not so.  It was not worth the time it would have taken to restore it.  So, I am now at the point where it is time for a turntable installation.

The Fast Tracks system is good but has a few drawbacks. I'm not talking about turnout construction here. I'm talking about construction of straight and curved track.

Holding down the rails while trying to solder the rails to the P.C. ties can be frustrating at the least. Compound this with trying to construct continuous rail. Just how long is your work bench any way?

A solution to this is to manufacture a system to hold the rails firmly in the fixture so that you can easily solder the rails to the ties.

I need a few single crossovers like the one shown below. This post describes how I combine two Fast Tracks #6 N-scale switches into a single crossover.