Thanks for the further responses, everyone. I’ve seen Mike Culham’s superb layouts on the Facebook O scale/P48 group site. Will have to find those articles in OST which will no doubt make for informative reading.
Mario, some good points you raised. My stock is, with a couple exceptions, all transition era 40’ stock or shorter. Locos will be small switchers (SW, NW, or similar). The layout will definitely be point to point, there’s simply no room for anything else. It will be more of what I would describe as a “rural industrial” line, serving industries in or near a small town setting.
Dick, I’d like to set it higher than 3’, but there are some design considerations which would make it difficult to do.
Firewood, thanks for the ideas. I’m somewhat familiar with Carl Arendt’s micro layout site, but will look some more for the O scale layout you mentioned.
Thanks again, everyone.
