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<p>Edmunds,</p><p>First you need to determine how you plan to "operate" your staging yard.</p><ol><li>Parking yard. Just bring a train in; park it; and then bring the same train out later.</li><li>"Fiddle" yard. That is, bring a train in; manually (by hand) add and remove cars; then take the new consist out later.</li><li>Switching yard. That is, rearrange cars using a loco just like a real or visible yard.</li></ol><p>Each of these scenarios call for a different design to function properly. Or you may want to incorporate more than one concept into your staging area: A "parking" area and a "fiddle" area. A parking area does not need a lot of access but a fiddle area does.</p><p>An "escape" track is just a design that allows an engine to "escape" from a train after it has brought the train in engine first. Typically this might be a crossover at the end of a single ended yard that would allow the engine to move to an adjacent track and back out. Large passenger station designs are good examples of this.</p><p>Good Luck,<br />-John</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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