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 Hi Trainsme1,you tripped into a trap that I fairly well know - happens to me even now, after 45 years of model railroading. It is like that gorgous looking cake - the slice´s jut too big to eat it all! Here is a way out of the trap - and a lot of this has been stated in that forum before. Get a track planning software, define the size of your layout and just do the planning. Now there are a lot of pro´s and con´s in using a track planning software, but they do help in staying within scale and within the "confinements" of the space available.I had to learn the hard way - I planned my dream layout and than tried to fit it into the room. Either the door or the windows were inaccessible or the layout were to be built not higher than 30 inches above floor due to the sloping ceiling.  Again, a track planning software helped me to avoid expensive mistakes. XtrkCad and RTS from Atlas are free of charge, just download them...
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