Talk to me about staging

[Lester Perry]

I am a late comer as usual any more. I have 2 hidden / staging yards on my layout. My main layout is a continuous loop, I have a track in each direction going to hidden yards. the yards are beside each other. I have 3 tracks in each one. The 3 tracks converge back to one at the end of the yard. the switches there are Atlas with no machines, so you can run through them with no problem when exiting the yard. this single track continues to the ladder on the other hidden yard. sounds confusing how about a quick drawing



The red would be coming from east bound the black from west bound Kay Dee magnets would be on the right end of the red yard and left on black. Train enters red yard from left goes onto empty track continues to magnet where loco uncouples then continues on through switches with no machine to hold it. continues out of red yard to black lead track. then reverses to black yard to pick up train to return to layout. If there is no train to pick up in opposite direction just leave the loco at magnet. I hope this is understandable.
Les