Below is the diagram of the yard I'm going to start building. I'm looking for any ideas that might make it better.
My layout's yard is on a curve, so it does not look like the diagram. However, the diagram has the same functionality.
My concept is that the yard is for a small town with local in-town industries and industries farther out on the main and two branch lines. A through freight from a larger division yard would drop off a block of cars in the arrival/departure track (yellow track) that would need to be sorted and moved to the appropriate industry. After the cars are loaded/emptied at the industry they would be returned to the yard, put into a block for pickup by a through freight.
To make things more interesting for an operating session of 3-4 folks is the engine and caboose would need to be changed out at the same time. This gives me a reason to run many engines. Trains coming from the west or south would use the run-around track (red track).
The diagram is not scale. The yard lead is long enough to put all the cars from a full classification track.
Comments welcomed.