10-09-2009, 10:03 AM
Kevin, if you are modeling a small town on your layout, 99% of the freight on any train will come from someplace else and be delivered someplace else. Unless a small town has a large industry that pretty much dominates the town, they won't have enough industry to load or unload any train. Put whatever cars you are interested in having on your layout and let them pass through the town to staging. In the case of gons you could even have loaded gons going east and empties going west or vice versa.