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I'm going to walk on dangerous ground here and make some comments that "on average" are probably true. An operations guy is more likely to have a larger layout, been in the hobby longer, and be more social in his hobby. If you are going to have "guests" over to your layout, and they show consistantly, chances are you are more into operations. Many who build larger layouts generally do it, keeping in mind that others will come and run on their layout. But "ops" is one of those dangerous words that can mean different things to different people. I have "operated" on several layouts and I have found that "ops" can be very informal - almost a non-ops session - to very formal. My experience is that most are in between formal and very informal. A guy with a 4 by 8 is less likely to have ops sessions than the guy with a larger layout. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just saying on a percentage basis, a lot less. Also, the guy in the hobby for a long time has seen the trains go round and round many times over, and so he is more open to another way of running.
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