Inspired by my trips on the Potomac Eagle, I decided to add a hidden staging yard that will be modeled after the Wappocomo station and the adjacent service yard.
I cut through the wall that is next to my office and workshop, and added the staging area by installing a simple 2x12 shelf supported by brackets along my office wall.
In the process, I added another wye and redesigned the coal mine area to add more spurs, since I now had the wye to facilitate switching the mine.
This eliminated the runaround track at the mine, which was too short, and limited the size and number of the spurs the mine area could support.
