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Help needed in designing small switching layout

I have started gathering some inexpensive 2 rail stuff to build a small switching layout in my little room.  Pictured is the bench work that is up so far, some narrow shelf extensions will be added to make it into a "C" shape.  Theme is industrail/steel mill served by the Indiana Harbor Belt with one of the old AHM/Rivarossi heavy 0-8-0's running on the tight radius track also sold back then.  I am going to get a few of the mill gondolas, flat cars and box cars that AHM also offered and can be gotten cheap.  Yes I plan to upgrade the tiny motor in the 0-8-0 and add plenty of weight, followed by a trip to the local weathering guy to make it look less toy like.  But when it comes to track plans and what I can actually fit, I stuggle.  Not planning to do the specialized mill cars, bottle cars ect.  More like some of the outlying buildings as false fronts that I can set out and drop cars at, set in gons of scrap to be melted down ect.  Something I can enjoy a decent amount of operation with.  DCC and full sound in the big 0-8-0 is planned.   Anybody able to help with track planning?   the layout is 8 foot wide at the rear, 3 feet deep in the narrow middle portion, 4' on each side of that narrow part, then 2' deep shelfs down each wall with the left side going 8 foot down that wall in total length and the right side is 6 foot long.     AD   P.S, all the trains on the layout and even the grass mat are gone now, down to the white Homasote and ready for 2 rail track to go down.  

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