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My first reaction, and perhaps as an architect I am predisposed to look for this, was that the aisle space is uncomfortable. If I am correct in reading your graph scale as being 6 inches per square, then you're allowing 24" aisles minimum with 30" preferred. This is workable, but it is the same as what I had built my original WP&P to, a layout which I am currently rebuilding with wider aisles. On my layout, I had even rounded all the corners to a minimum 12" radius, and it still felt tight. While there may not be much you can do about the overall room width, I would encourage you to round off or chamfer (cut at an angle) the corners of your peninsular features, and maybe find space for one wide viewing area with more than 36 inches of width. Your elbows, your friends, and your friends' elbows will thank you. Second, I agree with the recommendation that you lay out turnouts according to a template. The yard throats you have drawn won't work, but you might find interesting ways of making them work, perhaps by beginning the ladder within the approaching curve and fashioning the mainline curve out of the connected diverging routes of all the turnouts. Doing so is not prototypical, but it might be a reasonable compromise. You might also have the mainline run as a parallel curve just inside of such a ladder, with just one turnout to connect the "pinwheel yard ladder" to the main. Another thought I had was that you might just lengthen several of the industry sidings by locating their switch a bit further away. This will add car capacity, but you might also use that extra length to accomodate a slight change in elevation, which can add interest. On my own layout, I have an industry situated in front of my main depot, but I have the spur descend a modest grade so that this customer doesn't block my view. Even if the industries themselves don't grow to accept more deliveries, the extra track can be just a decent hole for a caboose or helper engine to park in while getting clear of the main. One last thought: you had sketched in the main street of Belleville as being perpendicular to the layout edge. I suggest a very slight angle or tilt to it instead, as this will be much easier to treat in a convincing way when it gets to the backdrop. Plus, it places the viewer in a more dynamic relationship to the crossing; you get some of the view that the engineer has upon approach, and not just the view of the cars waiting on its passing. The siting of buildings also becomes more intesting, as you work in rectangular building footprints into a triangular or trapezoidal area; the corners that get created always end up being the places where interesting details accumulate. Hope this helps!
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