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Do you have more than 1 car.  If so you may want to consider making the layout stowable.  Im not sure how often you guys get typhoons out there but you might want to consider being able to put a hypothetical 2nd car in the garage.  This would also assist in moving it later, if you were to relocate at a later date.  Moving the layout is something new model railroaders often do not consider when building.  Folding or removable legs would go a long way towards this.  Just something else to think about. You could probably stretch out the layout into a 12x5.  I dont reccommend a 12x6 because you wont be able to reach the middle very well, and would have to be constantly moving it back and forth.  Reaching more than 2.5 feet without a specialized ladder may have bad results for your scenery and rolling stock in the yard.  As well as knocking things off the track when rolling... or the table rolling into the wife's car...... You also need to consider how tall the table will be.  The taller the table the less distance you will be able to reach, but in many cases the taller the table or rather the track height the better the trains will look.  The height of the track from a visual perspective is an opinion, individual results may very.  My girlfriend is a helicopter pilot and likes the top down view of things... I however like to have it closer to eye height.   I once thought about a N scale layout for a submarine rack on a 688....then decided that was a bad idea.
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