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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse IF you bring trains from an unseen "rest of the world" and ship them off to an unseen "rest of the world" that is staging. To use a play or "stage" metaphor, you are taking them "off stage." When they are "off stage" you can fiddle with them or not and restage them for the next op session. You have a scene and an off stage. You do staging. [/quote] I don't know Chip - I don't think Harold's "behind the backdrop" section is any different than, say, a different "leg" of a U-shaped layout. Just because you don't see it when you're standing in a particular area, that doesn't necessarily make it "offstage". It's more like a scenic divider. Staging generally refers to an unscenicked area where the 0-5-0 is welcome to mess with cars & loco's, etc. The "other side of the barrier" of Harold's layout is just another scene. I don't think Harold has a scene and an "off-stage". I think he has a finished scene, and another scene that just happens to be waiting to be finished. There's no fine line of the definition of staging frankly, but if Harold isn't using it that way, then it's really not staging - not anymore than a tunnel that a train could dissapear into, etc.
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