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<p>My main layout is only a 4'X3' roughly but I have a dog leg of approx 3'X1.5' modeling a union station passenger terminal, freight yard and intermodal container terminal as well. I know, I cram too much in small areas but what the heck, that's all the space I got and I want all that! LOL The main layout has a mainline around the whole area and then a inner figure of 8 connected from the mainline. And within there, I have the turntable and the roundhouse in one loop of the figure 8 and then a small town in the other loop of the 8. Then just some forest, bridges and a mansion on top of a hill next to ta forest. I am just too lazy to upload any photos at the moment but I'll post photos later because I only just planted the trees last weekend anyway so...</p><p>But don't let small space turn you off on a turntable...the only thing I would probably do if I can start all over again is to forget about the inner loop/figure of 8 and just do a proper loco yard and/or classification yard with the turntable at the end. When I designed this layout I was insisting on a double cntinueous loop being a beginner but it seems most of the time I am using the inner loop to store trains anyway because I think I have more locos and rolling stock than I can fit on all of my tracks now.</p>
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