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Don't turn this enjoyable thread into flame warfare. No one is right; its kind of like those who like red wine versus those who like white wine; of course some of us feel that we who like both red and white are the best off. If Billy Bob thinks red wine is great - it is for him. If Billy Bob happens to use an evaluative word you don't like, take the high road and ignore it. You don't have to have a large city terminal area to make passenger service interesting, especially those in the transition era. A Canadian example will have to suffice. If you modelled Jasper Alberta ( a tourist town) in the 40 and 50's, you would be modelling a divisional point that had lots of action for a small town. In fact, Jasper was and is a railroading and tourist town primarily. Even today about 15% of the passengers get off in Jasper from Vancouver, a large amount when you consider the train is less than 24 hours into its three day journey to Toronto. Jasper did maintenance and took off and add passenger cars in those days. How do I know? I used to play in them. Divisional points can be busy areas for passenger service, even if it isn't a large city. But even now in Vancouver when the VIA arrives in the summer, the train backs in, breaks in two and parks on different tracks. During the day, cars will be added or subtracted, either for dead heading purposes, building the train to accept more passengers, or removing cars for storage or servicing. Engines will be added or subtracted for dead heading purposes or increased power needs. Engines can be taken off for servicing. To model Vancouver passenger well, you only need two buildings - the passenger station and the servicing building. And I think there is a total of about 8 tracks, however I am using three tracks.
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