Fiddling with layout ideas

[Tyson Rayles]

I'm guessing you are building in HO? You could do so much more in that small space in N scale. That said I would stick with diesel as the turntable or wye is a huge waste of space in such a small area. Even if you run steam I still wouldn't have the TT or wye as on small rural branch lines they usually just ran em' forward then backed them back down the branch. The low traffic flow didn't justify the extra expense when the train was so short the loco could pull it easily enough going backward.