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I am going to re-iterate.  4ft wide is a huge problem if you cannot walk 360 degrees around the outside of the layout.  And even if you can it is still a huge pain (I have an O scale layout in my mothers basement that is made from 4x8 sheets of plywood).  It has not been worked on in 9.5 years and will never be finished.  The only reason it still exists is I have not had time to demolish it.  Crawing back and forth even for a young person (I started this layout shortly after my 18th birthday) gets tedius and you eventually get tired of standing up too soon and banging your head on the benchwork.  Arround the walls is a much better use of space.  If you have enough, build a peninsula in the middle.  Use either a short duck/nod under, lift out, or lift/swing gate for access.  Notice I did not discourage your donut plan, but you should really consider pushing it out to the walls and making your benchwork 18"-32" wide.  Trains do infact de-rail and when they do you will have a terrible time reaching it over 4ft wide benchwork. Check out the model railroad planning 2016.  There is a great mountain railroad in there than may help you with ideas (it is N scale though).
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