Dilemma HO layout plan

[LynnB]

Stephen after giving it some thought the way you want to simplify the plan, basicly you have an end to end plan there so what I would do is treat it more like a puzzle where you would need less industries to make it less cluttered but at the same time make it more difficult to pull a car(s) from a certain industry without moving cars out of the way. Not sure if your familiar with shunting puzzles I think there referred to. Hope this gives some ideas.