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You can use interchanges as staging.

Staging doesn’t have to be a yard either . It can be a sector plate or a cassette.

it also doesn’t have to hold trains, it can hold cuts of cars and look like a junction or AD yard.

Lots of ways

Staging can take many forms. It simply means that traffic is set up and available to run on cue.

In addition to the traditional staging yards at the east and west ends of our railroad. we have a long branch that originates haulers, an unscenicked branch that stub ends and hosts a couple of trips a day; and a paired quarry and concrete batch plant that also supplies morning and afternoon trips that originate on the main, reverse direction at a junction, and terminate partway down the branch. 

In addition, both an eastbound and a westbound through freight are, at the end of each session, tied down on mainline sidings.  The presence of all of these unconventionally staged trains lets a session get up and running quickly, so everyone has a job almost from the get-go without getting in each others' way. 

Wow!

A professional model railroader! 

I guess my staging yards were designed by a rank amatuer......me!

Tom Haag...

...said

Professional

Being a professional at anything only means you were paid to do it at least once in your life.  If you ever worked on somebody's layout, fixed some of their locomotives or rolling stock, built a structure for them etc. and you got paid then YOU are a professional model railroader.  If we expand payment to mean that they provided lunch, a free soft drink or something similar then I imagine that most of us are professional model railroaders.

Bob Bartizek

  "Being a professional at

I tend to think it means one does it often and good enough to make a living. I've done lots of things once but only one thing enough to consider it my profession....DaveB

Professional

The term professional does indeed mean someone is paid. However this argument is often used by those who didn't master a certain craft and still want to wear the moniker. I was a US Navy photographer. I worked in the fleet as such for 8 months before I was  offered photo school from the fleet. Never considered myself a pro until I got out and on my own and made a living at it. Even though I had already been published in two news magazines. In my opinion, and it's just that an opinion. A pro is someone who has mastered their craft to the point they can make a living at it.

Indeed

I've been paid for a few articles I've done, but I'm no professional and never will be.  I don't have a problem with calling a number of folks "professional" model railroaders, though.  I don't have an issue calling Jimmy a professional model railroader, either.  It is just kind of funny that Az is the guy that labeled him as such given his history of fighting elitism in this hobby.

Professional and Elite are not the same thing... 

He is getting paid...  I did not say at any point that he is the best or should be the best.  He is a paid Host and part of the MRH Network,  So do respect is to call Jimmy a professional.

I do not count Jimmy in the elite crowed at all,  but he is doing a small layout in N scale with KATO Track, Jimmy has professional looking videos and he seems to be what people refer to as the youth group or younger modelers.  He also seems to be rather popular on YouTube with a large paying fan base.

All this that boils down into several subjects threads here on MRH from People saying This Does not exist, or needs to be covered more.

No Small Layout Coverage...
Not enough N scale...
No one uses Sectional/Kato type Track...
YouTube Videos are not Quality or well presented etc...
We need to see more young faces etc...
We need to see more regular guy type modelers... "Not Elite"

As a Professional Host and Presenter a Modeler like Jimmy checks a lot of Boxs and has a huge fan base just by looking at his paid subscribers.  Including Joe F.  who hired him as a Host for Trainmaster TV.

Professional and Elite are not the same thing...  Paid Professional = yes,  Elite Modeler = No.

There's no new ground being

There's no new ground being broken here. Just regurgitation of already well-established layout design fundamentals by yet another YouTuber in an already crowded field of wannabes hoping to make $.

Still appreciated

Perhaps it isn't new ground, but YouTube is an effective vehicle for this kind of free material and the fact that YouTube incents putting things up with the potential to make a few cents from advertising revenue doesn't make it any less useful. 

So thank you to the OP for the posting.

-Ed

Just hassling you, Az

Some would say referring to anyone in a hobby as a "professional" is bestowing upon them elite status.  As I said, I'm not one of them and I like Jimmy and have no problem calling him a professional.  Sometimes its just fun to poke the bear.