I bought a few more pieces of track today from a model shop, enough track (including a point or a switch if you prefer) to add a siding to my experimental layout. One complication of HOe gauge is while you can use N gauge track the geometry is different because the rolling stock is much larger. Thus a siding which would be perfect on an N gauge layout would not have enough space for clearance with HO size stock. However an extra bit of straight track does the trick.