Branch line/ISL

[Rscott417]

I drew this up very quickly so forgive the sloppy lines. What if you moved your main line from your yard to your industries a little further from the wall (closer to the edge of the layout) by just a couple inches and made your industry track in the top left your interchange but curve it behind a backdrop (I made the dotted line just because i couldnt make a straight line). Your interchange railroad would pull into the yard via the first track, leave the cars there, head up the parallel track and leave with a cut of cars from the yard. A switcher would sort the cars in the yard that were left by the interchange. I added the 2 tracks to the bottom of the yard for an engine house so that when trains use that runaround they're not using the engine house lead.

I hope i'm not sounding too confusing, but just another idea.