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I'm a bit old-fashioned and still like running trains in a loop, rather than point-to-point. I also don't have room for a fiddle yard, so I'd like to be able to leave 4 trains (C&S freight, C&S passenger, D&RGW freight and D&RGW passenger) on the layout, and run one at a time.
The freights are easy, as they'd commonly be found on various spurs and sidings.
But as I understand it, the passenger trains were pretty much always occupying the main line. The Kokomo downtown spur was a nice exception to that rule in the teens (and perhaps even 20's), but probably isn't an ideal solution in the 30's.
I've also seen passenger trains on the Marshall Pass siding in the snowshed. I suppose that's more of a (short) double-track main, so perhaps that's not really an exception.
But I just noticed a couple of pictures in Digerness of passenger trains on sidings in South Platte and Buffalo. In both cases I think it's the inventory special, not a normal passenger. Would the Denver-Leadville passenger ever be found on a siding?
Thanks,
Jeff.
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