Welcome to the forum Ryan. I'm going to address your "layout" comment. You know, it is absolutely possible to do a small layout (which tend to be more affordable), and a portable one at that.
Now I see you have a piece of FasTrack in your streetcar photo above. Yeah, FasTrack is more costly and has some limitations. But Lionel now offers FasTrack in a 31 inch curve, though you always need to consider the extra space of the molded roadbed.
But there's plenty of tubular track on the secondary market, which is certainly more affordable than FasTrack. According to MTH, those PCC Streetcars should negotiate a 027 curve. As far as actual layout sizes and designs, well the following website links are now available again in large part due to our forum member, Dennis La-Rock, who made a comment above.
Go to the following link, scroll down to where it says "0/027 Pages" and see the listings on the left. Starting with the 7th item down on "Doorway Layouts" there are several listings that are all on doing a small space layout.
I've always had small layouts and I assure you, I have as much fun as anyone. Sure, there are limitations: There are bigger sized and/or scale proportioned trains you will not be able to run. On the other hand, this can keep you within budget. The smaller sized traditional 0 and 027 train models do look better on a small sized layout. And I don't let the "toy" trains I buy stop me from having a certain amount of what I like to call "suggested realism" as you could see by clicking the link at the bottom of my post here.
