This obviously presents some very real problems: folks often don't like to /
or shouldn't handle cars. The solution to this lies w/ each person and
their layout. Staging is probably part of the answer. Having decent off
layout storage and figuring out best way to remove in and out of that
off-layout storage has to be another.
Dave Nelson

Dave

A train club I belong to last month had a design "bake off" for a
new layout. I'd submitted a design with a large amount of staging,
enough for 1,000 freight cars (for a layout w/ a 500' mainline). The
winning design chosen by members has no staging whatever, and only two
very small yards, which I take to be a vote for really poor operations.
I have no hope at all for that club anymore...

Tim O'Connor