What Scale

What scale is it going to be ? It seems a good design. Looks to be very operative.

Some quick questions

1) What scale modeling is this?

2) What size are the tables/shelves?

3) Will this be up against a wall on one or more sides?

4)  If I make the assumption that the layout is against walls on the top and left - are the two tracks at the rear intended to be staging (hidden tracks holding a train waiting to make it's appearance) ?

 If so, one of these tracks need to be left empty (or nearly empty) in order to switch the industry going down along the left wall. If that is intentional, no problem.

5) You have a longish runaround - about the same size as the two staging tracks - around the curve at the left bottom. What curve radius? What kind of cars do you intend to switch here?

 A good rule of the thumb is that you get good unassisted couplings with self-centering body mounted couplers (like Kadees) if the curve radius is about 5 times the length of the longest rolling stock.

 For 40-foot cars (boxcars etc from the transition era), the length is 3" in N scale, 5.5" in H0 scale, making curves where the cars will couple well respectively 15" radius (30" diameter) in N scale and 27.5" radius (55" diameter - i.e. about 4 1/2 feet diameter) in H0 scale.

 Modern 89 foot cars are a little more than twice as long, and needs correspondingly larger curve radius.

 Two caveats:

a) this is a rule of the thumb, not an absolute law of physics. Could be that you could make do just fine with less. Make a curve, test with your cars and see.

b) It supposes unassisted coupling with body mounted self centering couplers. A way around that is to just assist the coupler with a meat skewer or pencil, to use truck mounted couplers, or to use non-self centering couplers (like Sergent couplers - I may have spelled the name slightly wrong)

6) You have a runaround at lower right. Seems fairly short (although hard to tell since we don't know scale and size of layout), and I am not totally sure what the purpose of it is, since you have another and longer runaround around the bottom of the left peninsula ?

7) How do you envision switching on this layout - where will the train come from and where will it go?

 Hope all the questions are not discouraging - feel free to ignore any question you don't know the answer to or don't feel like answering. 

 Smile,
 Stein

that layout went to the rubbish bin

but it was going to be built on 3 foot 8 and a half X 7 foot platforms i have (they are made of 2X4s and half inch plywood so very sturdy) those top twotracks were for a bulk loading dock and the lower left siding was for a coal supply track to the foundry and the lower right run around was in a fenced in compound for the locomotive terminal and was supposed to be for storage. the operations would consist of trains shuttling coal to the foundry from the docks to "that siding" and loads of scrap into the foundry complex. and don't worry i drew those conclusions my self hence why it got scrapped