Vernon, LA county

[faraway]

That would be a good ISL for me since one of my favorite type of cars is reefers.

Sure it will be. I am working / thinking on the right balance of prototypical vs. freelance. The limited space makes some close to prototype planning not very practical because they lack good operation. While the maximum operation at a given space is far away from the prototype.
One thing to make that possible seams to be to ignore the physical location of "functional units". With "functional units" I mean some industry, a yard etc. Those units should be placed on the layout as they best fit in the space and permit useful interconnection for operation. Within a functional unit typical attributes of the prototype should be found.
An example is the new north yard. It is build by two units, the warehouse at the pier and the small yard. Both units are required for operation and had to be placed parallel due to space constrains (4 meter * 0,3 meter). But the warehouse has some similarities with a prototype in San Pedro and the yard is simple and flat like the prototype in the LA harbor. The operation permits creation and handling of in and outbound trains in the yard and servicing the pier from the yard.

btw. I did learn that simple track plans permitting prototype alike fast switching from one side without unnecessary runarounds are fun to play with. The south yard will get simpler trackage as it has today. The current zig-zag looks interesting but is boring to operate. We had some good discussions on that topic here some month ago.