10-10-2011, 12:42 PM
Chuck Hitckcock did an interesting story on passenger operations at a passenger terminal (Argentine, KS) in Model Railroad Planning 1997 - he operated a dozen trains a day, coming in from different directions and either terminating in the yard at Argentine, or having cars swapped out - head end cars of mail or express goods, taking off a parlor-observation car from train #11 and putting it on train #211 and so on and so forth.
He had a three track car yard, a couple of platform tracks, a place to set out cars that went on with other trains, the post office, the railway express agency, the comissary building track, a track that went to the local coal fired power station and a track with three or four local industries, plus the depot and the freight house.
Plenty of operations - with staging representing trains going off in or arriving from three directions.
Passenger can be done in cool ways. But I don't have the kind of space to pull it off, and I think freight is more interesting. I can see extensive passenger operations every day. Freight switching is exotic for me :-)
Smile,
Stein
He had a three track car yard, a couple of platform tracks, a place to set out cars that went on with other trains, the post office, the railway express agency, the comissary building track, a track that went to the local coal fired power station and a track with three or four local industries, plus the depot and the freight house.
Plenty of operations - with staging representing trains going off in or arriving from three directions.
Passenger can be done in cool ways. But I don't have the kind of space to pull it off, and I think freight is more interesting. I can see extensive passenger operations every day. Freight switching is exotic for me :-)
Smile,
Stein