I don’t know what kind of DCC system you have. ?My DCC system is NCE. ?In NCE the same function is called Macros. ?Setting Macros in NCE and then Routes in JMRI requires separate programming. ?I am assuming that you have already programmed/identified the stationary decoders that control the turnouts in your staging yard. ?You might want to make a list of their addresses. ?And then next you will want to make individual notations of the turnouts for each route and their state for each route. ?When you are programming routes in JMRI you are doing it solely in JMRI. ?So the process I did in NCE to program the routes then had to be repeated in JMRI. ? I’m thinking that you have already read the JMRI route programming information at: ?

I made some mistakes in my first routes, but when I got it all figured out it really start making sense and went faster. ?I highly recommend that you make out an excel spreadsheet to list the turnouts in each route and their state of thrown or closed. ?This is slightly different from your first list because I discovered that in my positioning of turnouts in staging the interpretation of what was closed or thrown might be different than what I had thought or programmed. ?I did not change my stationary decoder programming ?because in staging these identifications are not as easily determined. ?Out on the layout closed is always "stay on the mainline" and thrown "leaves the mainline." ?In staging it all depends on where you want to go. ?Finally after you have programmed your route, walk to the staging yard and see if you had correctly interpreted the “thrown” and “closed” interpretations and if you and your stationary decoders didn’t interpret the same thing go back to JMRI and reverse the “thrown” or “closed” state in your list of the turnouts you selected in your route. ?Depending on the size of your staging yard it can be a time consuming process, but I found it to be a surprisingly satisfactory task. ?I have also found that this function is remarkably dependable. ?The only times that selecting a route through staging didn’t work was because a wire to the switch machine had come loose or their was a short to the circuit controlling some or part of the switch machines and I just didn’t know they were “off line.” ?

Good luck with programming your staging yard.