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Beginner topic: What is staging and why do I need it? (Examples Added)
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Good topic there, Mouse; read your link with interest and you pretty well covered everything. <br /> <br />Staging areas do not necessarily have to be hidden; a well known layout located in Texas and representing the Santa Fe running out on those flat West Texas plains uses a "visual staging" concept. He obviously doesn't have any appreciable mountains to use for hiding his trackage so he uses an area with multiple tracks and he holds his consists there until the timetable calls for their "release" either east or west. During his operating sessions no trains "runthrough" this "staging" yard. As one train is coming in one has to leave. His layout is a rather large oval operation so his trains are always pointed in the same direction and he does his pre-operation switching/consist forming using one the well-known 0-5-0 switchers. <br /> <br />A layout I visited in the San Diego area had a "sneak-off" where what appeared to be a branchline leaving the main disappeared into a large warehouse complex and then magically reappeared in a wooded area on the other side of the peninsula. It was essentially a reversing loop but he had about six tracks hidden behind his urban scenery and trains which went in in one order would come out in a completely different one. Urban scenery is excellent for hiding "staging" tracks. <br /> <br />
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