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Rich, I was a small boy when my older brother received a Lionel train for Christmas. It was a passenger train modeled after the first streamliners that had wheels under the vestibules so could not be uncoupled easily.  Looked great, had lights in the cars, but had no play value except watching it run round and round. Later I traded some stuff with a friend and got a very old Lionel passenger trains with hook and loop couplers (more complicated than LGB), Now we had play value, trying to keep the two trains from hitting each other (but not trying TOO hard). Much later, as a teenager, I bought a cheap freight set; much higher play value, cars uncouple, you can load and unload cars, etc.  HOWEVER, the tops of LGB starter train passenger cars do snap off very easily (replace easily, too, and they have open end platforms!) and my two little girls just loved putting passengers in the cars or on the end platforms when the train stopped at the station and then getting them out after the train looped around.  But I think they liked putting stuff in the gondolas (often called coal cars) just as much if not more.
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