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Bridgeport Switching

-----===== BACKSTORY =====-----
The city of Bridgeport, WA, Namesake of the Bridgeport and Western railroad, has an active port yard with various industries and sidings to be switched out. As an engineer for the B&W, your duty is to sort these cars into a local train headed out to the rest of the system. Are you up for the task?
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-----===== RULES =====-----
To use this layout to its fullest potential, I recommend using the following rules:
1. No railcar or locomotive shall go through the tunnel unless it is entering or exiting the layout.
2. No railcar(s) shall be parked by itself on the mainline.
3. When exiting the layout, locomotive must be in the front of the train, even if reversed.
4. Use a caboose when doing the op session, since this layout is set in the 50s. It needs to be at the back of the train, both when entering and exiting.
5. This layout works best when using vanilla rolling stock, as it was designed with them in mind. For the caboose, you can do what I do, which is to use a short red passenger car with few windows.

These are optional, although I always use them for my ops on this layout.
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-----===== NUMBERING =====-----
To make op sessions more coherent, you can use the following system to number each railcar, based on industry and its type, as well as a random number generator (This one works well for this layout: https://numbergenerator.org/randomnumbergenerator#!numbers=5&low=1&high=24&unique=true&csv=&oddeven=&oddqty=0&sorted=false&addfilters= ) to make a list for inbound and/or outbound trains, and write it down somewhere.
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(Railcar types: C = Boxcar/Flatcar, B = Boxcar, G = Gondola, F = Flatcar, T = Tank car, R = Refrigerated car, H = Hopper)
Local Manufacturer:
LMC1: 1

Bridgeport Warehouse:
WHB1: 2
WHB2: 3

Overhead Crane:
OVG1: 4
OVG2: 5

OVF3: 6
OVF4: 7

Freighter track1:
FRT1: 8
FRT2: 9
FRT3: 10
FRT4: 11

FRC1: 12
FRC2: 13
FRC3: 14
FRC4: 15

Vance Refrigeration:
VFR1: 16
VFR2: 17
VFR3: 18

Tanker Track:
TTT1: 19

Bulk Barges:
BKH1: 20
BKH2: 21
BKH3: 22
BKH4: 23
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I made this in a weekend after finding a fun track plan on a website. (Found here, named Ingramport: http://www.jomrd.com/index.php?page=ViewByTag&ID=36&pageno=3 ) I thought it came out really well given the short amount of time spent on it, and it's quite fun to operate.
Regarding future projects, don't expect them to come out too soon, as I want to rest a bit after the stress the NYC pack caused, as well as stress from my actual life. They will come out, but I'm still human, so I can't just pump them out effortlessly.