How Does One Create the Blueprint for Tranquility?

Quickly browing for model train track layout software on the internet, I've manage to find two promising cadidates: Hornby Virtual Track and XtrkCad. Other candidates are train simulation games, such as Microsoft Virtual Train and maybe Railroad Tycoon style games.

From all the above, XtrkCad is the only one which is an open source initiative (i.e. it is free!). It is also the most 'professional' looking app, where it produces blueprint style sheets as opposed to full 3D colourfull landscape found on the Hornby app or the other train/railroad games above.

To cut a long story short, I decided to try XtrkCad. It is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork/

The learning curve is quite steep, at the beginning the app is not quite intuitive. After one night of trying different things, I finally manage to get a loop using true to scale Hornby tracks. After another 3 days, I've managed to get something that looks like a final track layout: (insert picture here)

At this point I realise that the part where I planned the station will be (upper right area) does not have enough space for the actual platforms between the tracks. Ouch! Time to go back to the drawing board...