Steve75
The room dimension's are 13' X 10' which we also use for storage as well. Also my wife will not let me fix it to the wall's. So I have put the table on wheel's so I can move it out and get to all sides.
It is not totally clear from your words whether you already have built your table and tested access or not.
You have already built your table ? Can you push it in by the wall, and have enough space to access everything else in there ? Can you pull it out from the wall and move around it on at least three sides, even with all your storage items in there ?
You say "We also use for storage as well". What does that mean ? Do you have storage shelves in there ? Cupboards ? Piles of boxes on the floor ? How much space do that stuff take ? Where is it ?
Try to describe the room and your situation with words, if making a diagram and posting it is too hard.
Room is 13 x 10 feet. Okay - let's call the walls north (up), east (right), south (down) and west (left).
Where is the door into the room, what wall, how many inches from which corner, how many inches wide is the door ? Does the door open into the room or out from the room ?
Are there more than one door (e.g. doors to cupboards or built in closets or porch doors or whatever) ?
Is there any windows, electrical boxes or anything like that which you need to preserve access to ? If so, where are they (on what walls, how far from which corner, how wide, how high) ?
Next step is to describe your modeling goals - what you would like to have on your layout, and what you feel you must have if you are going to build a layout at all.
What is it about N13 that appeals to you?
Next time, try to use a few more words to describe how things look, what you want to accomplish and why you want things that way. I need to understand your goals to be able to suggest some possible ways to get there.
An example : you are planning a table layout that is 4 x 8 feet. Okay - why is it not e.g. 30" x 80" instead - the size of a hollow core door you can buy cheaply at e.g. Home Depot. 30" is wide enough for a 13" radius curve at the ends, but still no wider than you can reach across it from one side (at least if the layout is not located too high up on the wall) instead of needing access from both sides ?
Saving 18" of width actually ends up saving you 40" of depth, since you don't need an access aisle on the back side of the layout. At the cost of not having two scenes - one on each side of a viewblock divider down the middle of the table.
How about building a layout that is dogbone shaped along one wall or around a corner ? The center of the layout can be narrow, while the ends widen out to allow engines to turn around. A shape not unlike e.g. this one:
How about having a layout where trains do not run in a circle, but where they go point to point. Start from somewhere, go out to somewhere else, and then stop and head back. Real railroads doesn't run in circles - they go back and forth.
You can model railroading in your home town that way pretty easy. Here is e.g. a plan for railroading around a paper plant in New England based on that principle:
The plan above has a main part that is 2 x 10 feet in H0 scale - that would need about 14" x 6 feet in N scale. The detachable cross piece is 1 foot wide (for most of the way, 2 feet wide at the top) and six feet long in H0 scale - would be about 7" wide and 3 1/2 foot long in N scale.
There are lots of ways to fit a layout into a room. But one needs to have an idea of what your design goals are - is e.g. being able to just let trains run and run in a loop an important design goal for you ?
Is it important to you to have more than one train running ? At the same time ? Or just having the option of parking one train on the layout and run another ?
I would suggest you forget about the wiring for a moment - you first need to find out how much room you really have. Then you need to find out what you want to be able to do with your trains on your layout. Then you figure out how to build it.
Available space and goal first, then designing track plan, then figure out how to build benchwork, lay track, wire track and build scenery later.
Smile,
Stein