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I like Lightbender's Cassette approach! <br /> <br />For those who don't have space for a dedicated train-length stub yard, you could build instead a little stub siding out the front of your benchwork, looking like a sawtooth in plan, with a 3" wide shelf where the cassettes plug in. Your staging is in front of the fascia, in other words. You park a train, then pick up its cassette and store it below the layout, taking out another to plug in. The difficulty will be in securing the trains once cradled; perhaps some sort of foam-covered clamping sides would work. This probably isn't a good idea for very long trains (in my case I want to run 8-9 foot long trains, about 25 cars in N-scale), but if your trains are four feet or under, maybe it makes sense.
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