Thom,
 
I'd thought of this as well, as I started(and still use in a live setting) a hardware console. Like others here, I am used to being able to return to a channel. I've also been in situations where I though it would be handy to have a signal return to a buss(track) setup next to the sending track. As you said, it would save scrolling back and forth.
 
I have a couple of work a rounds that do well for me. I have 2 screen sets assigned to console mode. One for tracks and one for busses. I've found it easier to switch between screen sets than scroll. Especially with high track counts. The other thing that works for me, is to slide the divider between track and busses in console view, so only a few busses are showing. Then scroll to the buss you need to view, while still being able to see the tracks that your working with.
 
Hope I explained that clearly.

Ruben

bitflipper
I come from a hardware background, where tracks are tracks and busses are busses. I'm therefore accustomed to thinking of them as fundamentally different kinds of things.

 
I think several of us used hardware before computers became all the rage, and what the OP is asking is something that many people, including myself, did with a hardware mixer. For example, you have a group of BVGs on 3 or 4 tracks. You send them all to your outboard reverb then return the reverb to a track right next to the vocal tracks, so they are all in the same place on your board. If I understand correctly, that's what the OP wants to do with Sonar.
 
 

bitflipperIn Track View I can position a bus right under a track if I want to.

 
That may be the OP's answer but how do you do that? Because I can't drag a bus out of the bus pane, and I can't insert a bus next to a track.
 
 
 

bitflipperUnfortunately, just about everything else in Reaper felt so awkward to me that I couldn't ever get into it despite repeated attempts.

+1
 

I used mixers and still do and I have never recorded anything with a mixer.  Tape yes mixer no. With Sonar and the ability to send audio out with the External Insert plug-in you can do exactly the same thing with Sonar that you describe above. 
 
 

joel77
Thom,
 
I have 2 screen sets assigned to console mode. One for tracks and one for buses. I've found it easier to switch between screen sets than scroll. Especially with high track counts. 
 
 

Hi (Brother) Joel;
I do this as well and it works for me, quite efficiently. I like using the screen sets, very easy to toggle between various views.

Del
 
Hi (Brother) Joel;
I do this as well and it works for me, quite efficiently. I like using the screen sets, very easy to toggle between various views.

Hey Dave! I haven't run into you on here before!
 
Yep, love those screen sets! 
 
........ Now if we can just get Gary and Paul to use them!!  lol

Yep, yep yep!

joel77
I have a couple of work a rounds that do well for me. I have 2 screen sets assigned to console mode. One for tracks and one for busses. I've found it easier to switch between screen sets than scroll. Especially with high track counts.

 
This is interesting - I haven't used screen sets but was recently reading about them in a Sonar Power book. I definitely going to give this a try - thanks for the tip! 
 
 

joel77
The other thing that works for me, is to slide the divider between track and busses in console view, so only a few busses are showing. Then scroll to the buss you need to view, while still being able to see the tracks that your working with.

 
I've tried this but I still end up scrolling more than I care to. But this is not bad depending on one's workflow.
 
 

joel77
Hope I explained that clearly.

 
Yes, Thanks!

Ruben,
 
I try to give a little something back to this forum. I've learned so much from others here. Sometimes I think my ways of doing things in Sonar are out in left field somewhere!  lol