Interchange

[Chuck]

I use cassettes for staging trains on my Detroit Connecting. The interchange track for the GTW runs to the edge of the layout; one track is inbound, the other outbound. I roll the cars off the cassette onto the inbound track, and then roll the outbound cars into empty cassettes and place them on a shelf until they are needed again. This way I have a variety of cars coming onto the layout in different combinations. My cassettes are 3 feet long, so they hold 5-6 cars depending on the length of the car. I plan on using this type of staging in two other areas in phase two and three. I also plan on having lower level staging at some point as well.
Chuck