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Okay, some thoughts based on my interests and opinions.     My ideas do not work for everyone, especially toy train collectors who prefer more display and less operation.

First the town area and the "rural" area look too inaccessible.    I prefer an around the walls design with a penisula so no track is more than 30 inches from the edge of the benchwork, which is my arm's reach.    Also all areas of the layout can be accessed without too much trouble and without using popup hatches.

The yard tracks look too short on the diagram.    Also probably more crossovers than needed in the yard.    I would build the yard along a long axis/wall to get 20 feet or so.    The the engine terminal could be inside the turn at the end.

The various "mains" are not connected.    I like all track to be connected so I can run trains from any to any other one without picking them up.

There is no or very little industrial trackage for switching.    My favorite operation is the local freight which goes out from they yard and works a bunch of industries switching cars in and out and then comes back to the yard with its pickups.    these  pickups then leave the yard in a through freight while another through freight brings in more stuff for the local to work.

Except for the engine terminal and  yard, the trackwork is pretty boring.     Wants  you the loops in and run around a few times, what are you going to do next - see above about industries.

No plan or considering for "staging" tracks to represent off-the-layout connections

the schematic below is my layout in a 23x47 ft space.

 

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