Even in N scale though? I mean the team track is almost a foot of N scale track which is about 160 feet, also same for the yard area and the sidings are well over a foot, in another plan i did make the runaround a lot longer, almost three feet now and attached it direct to the freight yard like such. As far as "finding a reason to use the 3 point turnout" no, I wasnt sure if I could connect the points of c55 n scale peco to the frog end and kinda ladder it out a bit for that rail in the middle. This was the other addon i put earlier in the morning after i looked a bit more, everything else is same besides an extra 3 feet of track just for the runaround https://imgur.com/4rfAjG1
Maybe so, but I think the real issue is that you probably took an HO scale plan and changed it to N scale to have enough room in some places. Plans don't scale down well like that.. There ends up being a whole bunch of space that gets wasted just to keep the same basic shape. For example, its a really long ways from the 3 way switch to the propane dealer in N scale.
Here is an N scale plan copywrighted by Byron Henderson. I hope he doesn't mind me posting it (whoever he is...). The meat of the plan fits in your space, with the short side needing some adjustment to ensure the "switching lead" was long enough.
But, for discussing concepts: Notice how the yard is large enough to support the rest of the layout. Notice how all of the tracks tend to be straight and somewhat parallel to each other instead of unecessarily curving and using up space. Notice how industries are placed againt the wall to save space. Your space is deeper so you can do a few more things, but shelf layouts that try to be linear rather than randomly curvy do a better job of space utilization.
- Douglas