Thoughts Wanted: layout staging-interchange yard

[Gary S]

Yeah, you'd have to pre-stage before operating by assembling a train or two and then rolling them back into the staging yard out of sight. Not ideal but it would give the impression of trains coming from "someplace else".

I didn't think of that... it would be a simple matter to pull the trains out of the hidden part to remove them and build the new ones up and push them back there. At the moment, I'm still favoring the seperate interchanges, but ya never know. Doesn't hurt to examine the options, and I appreciate everyone's input.