Layout Design Help needed.

[Ron S]

The book by Iain Rice - "Mainlines in Modest Spaces " has a few layouts that fit that space with a couple of minor changes.

[Chops]

Good point, I've not seen that Rice book. I've read his other book on layouts
for small spaces, promoting prototypical fashion, until the pages nearly fell
out. The man was a genius.

[RSR Engineer]

Like Chops said, a folded figure of eight gives you double the length of run. My old layout (H0 gauge) had about the same space as you have and I was able to avoid a flat crossing and keep the ruling gradient to 1 in 35 and the ruling radius to 3 ft. Just a thought.

Cheers,
Artur