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Having spent a 23 year professional career designing and building chemical plants, trust me that it is not really possible to design something when you don't have a decent vision of what you hope to do. My suggestion is to look at what industries you want to model and what their car needs and track needs typically look like. Design around cars/tracks and fit the buildings around them. Building flats (earlier response) are a good idea to free more space for track, and my club is doing that in our new major industrial area. Model RR Planning 2003 has some good suggestions about how to model industries off-scene. I suggest you get that and look at it as well. A bulk unloading terminal of some sort would work well in a modern era setting. I am thinking about a design for a new home layout, and I am seriously considering methods to model the bulk of the industries as flats or off scene foreground to allow more space for the trains themselves. Good luck.
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