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For GreenIron, someone mentioned an elevator somewhere but it will limit the length of your trains. I like to use the analogy of an old style barbell for staging, the kind you see in the comics. One loop is the staging area, the bar is the connection to the visible layout and the othe loop is the actual visible layout. By connecting both ends of the staging area to the one connection to both ends of the layout it allows you to turn trains after leaving one end of the layout or sending them in a circular path. Stub staging areas requires too much hand work or will need a loco turn-around of some type anyway. Real RR's do have a front and back end to their loco travel, you know. Save the stub end yards for the visible layout where you can generate operating interest (difficulties.) Staging is just a helper for whatever you are really trying to simulate.
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