Wow, that’s brilliant thank you!
I’m happy that not only does it now show inside my track list in the project window, but that I can also a track picture to it. Only thing is there seems to be a bug (or for some weird reason this is by design) but the track pictures added to the input or output channels in the Project Window do NOT populate those channels in the MixConsole. Booo Steinberg. 
I also don’t understand the logic about the solution. Why would we have to press W in MixConsole to see these input channels appear in the Project Window? Are they just for automation? Why not add them as a filter track type of “In/Out Channels” insted of “Other Track Types” and make all the active ones appear when we make that visible? Seems like poor design to me for that feature…