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In the early days of Trains, many trains were composed of both frieght and passenger cars going to the same destination. This was due to cars being unloaded and reloaded onto other cars bound for another location, usually on another line. As soon as it became more feasible to just let the cars stay loaded and loan the car to the other line, dedicated frieght and passenger trains showed up. It stayed this way for awhile, then came the need to expidite some goods faster than standard freight could handle, thus the express car, mail car, bank/payroll car, and other showed up. At this point you'd be hard pressed to find a true combination freight/passenger train, but occasionally you'd find a passenger car on the end of a freieght train, or a small set of frieght cars on a passenger train bound for the same location or carrying goods that were needed for specific reason. There are times you may see frieght and passenger mixed today, usually a natural disater causes it. a set of passenger cars is coupled with a set of boxcars and/or tank cars carrying emergency good to a disater area. The apssenger cars would be carrying Military and/or releif workers, while the box cars would carry food, clothing and other nescecities, the tank cars would usually be water tankers bringing fresh water in. So it would be perfectly normal if you wanted to model a mixed consist of passenger and frieght, if it fits your layout or era. Jay
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