Staging yards do not have to be physically present to use the staging concept for your railroad. Each of the three types can be defined to utilize your active yard. So one location can be used in up to four different ways.

Regular yard: where trains are made up during operation by your switching crew.

Fiddle yard: where trains are made up prior to the operatiog session by hand from cars and engines which are not currently on the layout. Calling that made-up train puts its rolling stock into operation on the layout.

Through yard: where a train terminates during a session, then is called out for operation later as a different train but with the same cars and engines.

Division yard: used for changing engines and caboose on a train. The train terminates and is called out just like a through staging yard, but when it is called out new engines and caboose are assigned by the user.

The Division yard is useful for trains that bridge between different roads.