Speaking of Passenger Service

[Tyson Rayles]

Most people don't have the space for curves wide enough to handle 85' cars, nor to they have big enough yards and enough towns to justify and real passenger ops. I wanted to run a passenger train (and will) on my layout but it will come out of staging on one side of the layout pass thru the junction and disappear into staging on the other side then return later in the day which is all the real train did, there was no reason for it to stop out in the middle of nowhere and being it was a dead-end branch line they actually quit almost 20 years before my time period. Chuck Hitchcock built a big HO layout that was mainly pass. ops ( and featured in MR and GMR) but I guess it just wasn't enough action (another problem for most people)so he tore in down and refilled the basement with nothing but one freight yard after another, basically a multi-thousand square foot switching layout.