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Grayfox, if I had your space and was going to build a layout that big, I'd have 2 major requirements: 1) The mainline enters and leaves every scene only 1 time - it doesn't do a "u-turn" and come back through the same scene going the opposite direction. 2) Staging allowing point-to-point operation or continuous running. Say your the perimeter of your room is a clock. (I know, your room is a rectangle, but a clock is round, so bear with me here...) The train could start at the 1:00 position, then continue all the way around the room to the 12:00 position. That would be your point-to-point operation. You could have staging between the 12:00 and 1:00 position that could feed trains at either the 12:00 or 1:00 ends of the line. Just want to watch-em-run? Open up the staging and run it in a loop. Disclaimer: I have zero layout design experience aside from 4 x 8's when I was a kid. But I've seen a lot of layouts like this in MR that look like they contain a good combination of realistic looking scenes, and practicality. You could have a couple peninsulas that contain industries. I personally probably wouldn't bring the mainline out on the peninsulas. You'd end up with what a lot of guys call "blobs" - a big u-turn of mainline track. They don't look incredibly realistic. I'm envious of you!!!
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