Staging yard: several lengths of track on a layout used for storing or putting trains together before an operating session. Often hidden but they don't have to be.
Staging yards are hidden sections of track where modelers can send trains and then call them back later. Primarily used to simulate long distance runs in operating sessions, staging yards can also be adapted for storage.
Staging track capacity and resetting are handled the same way interchanges are.
Trains Staging
Trains holding at a point on line for release to move into a terminal.
Trains Tied Down ...
Also used as a staging yard where a modeler adds or removes equipment from a layout by hand.
Fill - Earth or rock is used to make a level roadbed across a valley or depression.
See "Staging Area".
Fill
RAILWAYS. The term used in the USA, and possibly some other countries, for what in Britain is called an embankment.
First Class Ticket (FCT)
TRAINZ.
staging — trackage — usually hidden — used to store complete trains out of or away from the layout, from which they can be run into the operating area and to which they can be returned and stored when they are no longer needed.
The dispatchers are not only responsible for keeping the trains moving, but also for live staging. The dispatchers have control over a four-track staging yard.
The yard in upper left can be a sort of staging area for carloads brought in via the rightmost spur. It can also service a local portside industry. The yard at lower left and center is the interface with a main freight railroad.
A short main line feeds a staging loop that can hold four trains. This defines the layout as terminal to loop. A turnout off the main serves an industry track to Flamo Oil, the 3M Smelter, Fly-by-night Industries and a team track.
When a train enters the Hidden Yard block the operator will here a short warning tone and then see the LED is on. If a train is leaving the LED shows the yard operator when it has left his block and he can resume staging operations in the hidden yard.
 See also: Track, Train, Layout, Operation, Scale
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