In ProTrak you have always been able to have multiple "Yd" yards in the same zone.

You may have a "main" yard in a zone, with a siding-number such as "GSM-Yd".   You could also have a second Yd yard at GSM.  ProTrak will make the siding-number "GSM2Yd".  The third one would be "GSM3Yd" etc.  These yards would be as separate to traffic as say "RIB-Yd".

You would create one these "2", "3" etc. yards by the usual "Edit/New" procedure.  Then at the "Station" datafield you would select "Gresham" on the right-hand pane (the list of stations).  ProTrak would find that the zone for Gresham is GSM, that a Yd yard already exists there, and then create the siding-number "GSM2Yd".

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In Update 339 this functionality has been extended.   There is a new data-input line: "This secondary yard is the same yard as the base yard" with a checkbox.  The new data-input line only appears if there is a secondary yard.  The data-input line appears below the data line "SPOT Zone Code".

If you check the checkbox, then ProTrak then treats "GSM-Yd" and "GSM2Yd" as if they are the same Yd yard.

Select the number of tracks in GSM2Yd (as usual) and enter the push-to data (as usual).

In Operations ProTrak just adds the two sets of number-of-tracks and push-to data together, under the base yard siding-number.

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What this gives you:

a) the GSM local-service yard could be set-up as the secondary yard.  Trains would serve "GSM-Yd".  This would eliminate the need for the transfer train between the two parts of the yard.   The inbound "Cut List" will show "Push to 10" or "Push to 17".

b) you can have up to 30 tracks in a Yd yard.

OK?

                     Jim