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Just make sure your staging is accesible, because you'll need to reach it in order to modify consists or swap engines for cabeese or whatnot. I'm rebuilding my layout now, with two stub-end staging yards at the two endpoints of my line, but when I first built it, at a different location, I had room for a return-loop style staging track which (via crossovers and the like) served both endpoints; this allowed entire trains to exit at either end and then reappear at either end, so that my passenger trains could appear to have returned from their far-off destinations while my empty coal trains could run continuously north, loadeds south. Even with all that utility, I still left it as an open-air yard in my workshop rather than hiding it on a lower level. If you're going to helix down to it, go an extra turn or two for "0-5-0" switcher clearances.
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