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Since you have no way to reverse the direction of trains, based on the location of your "storage tracks," you should run all of your trains clock-wise.  In addition, all of your industrial sidings should be started with "trailing point" switches.  That means, for delivery, your train can stop before entering the switch, uncouple the car(s) from the train to be delivered, move forward so that engines and cars clear the switch, and finally back the cars into the industry.  As your plan stands now, you only have one industry where the switch is not "trailing point," so maybe leaving that alone will provide some variation in operation for you.

Finally, have you considered making the mainline entrance from your storage yard into a wye?  That would allow trains leaving storage to travel in either direction on your mainline.  Also, look closely at your entrance to the center of the layout.  You really don't want only part of a switch on a bridge that will be moving.

Chuck

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