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My subroad (plywood) is 3/4" wider than the ties on both sides of the track. This is just enough room for the HO cork roadbed, leaving about 3/16 of exposed ply to attach scenery materials. I achieved this spacing by running a piece of 1x3 and a pencil along the enge of the track that had been temporarily tacked in position. I don't have a backdrop, since my layout is a 4x8 table, but I would leave at least a few inches so that the shadows of the trains, etc do not fall on the backdrop. Andrew
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