Am I heading down the right track?

[jacon12]

Below is a drawing, done with Atlas' free designing tool, showing the room I have for HO scale.

At this point I'm trying to get an idea of how best to utilize the space. The roll up door is permanently secured down. The idea at this point is a town at roughly B5 and F7. I've toyed with the idea of a peninsula at D2 for a port of some type. I'd love to have an elevated mining or logging area at either F1 or A1. I'd like to be able to run trains continuously if I wanted to, but have plenty of switching when I wanted to do that.
I'm new to this so I would very much appreciate any ideas or help you could give, any thing at all.
I hope the drawing shows up well enough for you to see.
Jacon

[SpaceMouse]

I'm not an expert by any means but I can see two things right off. You have a reach problem at the top of the C and at the lower right.

The top of the can be extended down into the center more to give you more layout room if that is what you want. IT could even hook a little to the left of the drawing. And if the door will never open you can go up on that side.

[jacon12]

I forgot to mention that I need to leave an area for a workbench so I thought the space directly in front of the rollup door would be fine. Also I neglected to state that the benchwork is in blue, but that is probably obvious to most.
Thanks Spacemouse for your suggestions. I see what you're saying about the reach problem and the area at B4/5 should be narrowed, is that correct. I was making it larger to maybe get in 24 r curves at that area and F7, but you're correct... it would be better to make those areas so they could be gotten to on 3 sides AND large enough for the 24inch curves. I just don't know, at this point, how to design that.
Thanks!
Jacon

[SpaceMouse]

The space can come out of A5/ E7. Or you could have an access area in the center of the loops.

[Anonymous]

jacon, it's fine, just build a pop up in B5/F7 so you can get to the bakc track, i can see you're looking at a return loop in those sections. B% really isn't that much of a reacj problem, as you have 2 of the 3 sides accessable, F7 has only 1 of 3 sides available, so you should build a popup in the middle to get to the back tracks in case of derailments.