>>7498710What I'd been thinking of doing for practice is pic related, which is described as:
"Plan Name: 4x06. A minimum-size shelf switching layout, with seven industries in a space 4 feet long and only 6 inches wide. The siding with the rerailer is the interchange track."
since it looks nice, has a decent variety to it and could also be used as a shunting puzzle of sorts but with more variety. Not sure if it's biting off more than I can chew though and I'm still hesitating on 00 vs N gauge. If I was going into all this fresh I'd go N gauge no hesitation, but the more I look through my cupboard the more I discover I used to have in 00 and can't set up + run for space concerns.