Freight or Passenger?

I prefer both.

Like and run both.

 

Art

You can tell by my Forum handle what I prefer to the extent that's all I run. We have 8 main lines and several sidings all served by passenger trains. I am one of the few on the Forum that prefers to go this route and I am proud to be one of the exceptions to the rule.

 

I look at it this way. What is more beautiful in the train world but a gleaming passenger train. It lights, it looks really cool, and gets immediate attention from visitors.

 

I have no problem with those that choose to run exclusively freight trains or a mix of both, but for me, it is passenger service ALL THE WAY.

Mostly passenger trains with just enough freight trains to make operations dicey on the railroad's single track mainline.

Both.

I'm for both.

No favorite, I like both.

I have twenty five trains, equally divided between freight and passenger.  When it comes to freight, three of my longest trains are auto and truck carriers, complete with cars and trucks I have purchased individually based upon my personal preference.  On the passenger side, I need to seriously consider changing the lighting to LED in order to run more without overloading my power supplies.

Almost, if not all, trains run are both, for if they are not mixed with freight and a

combine coach, they will be a long? (by short line definitions) freight with a combine

passenger caboose on the end.

Lots of both.....whatever the mood strikes!!!

Passenger trains, especially the colorful ones pulled by F units of the early '50's, are all I have except for the childhood freight set.

Both, especially passenger train on one main track, freight train on second main, both main tracks are parallel to each other.

I run both but like run coal train more then freight train.

I like both, they're all interesting and most are colorful.

Ralph

Pete,

I used to run nothing but Std Gauge passenger trains. It was that way since, December 1947. My layouts are now history, however, I still enjoy buying and repairing Std Gauge sets. Now I'm expanding my collection into Std & O-Gauge prewar freight sets.

 

God Bless,

"Pappy"

Both

Passenger and freight

Brent

I like them both, but currently have freight only. Mostly due to space and budget limitations. However, I do hope to have some passenger trains someday. Will probably be modern Amtrak. Maybe the new Siemens engines will be available in O gauge by then? Worked for them for over 20 years, only in a different division.

 

Then again I really do like those UP yellow and gray passenger cars, just watched Captaincog's video and those were very nice!

I mainly run passenger. I can relate to riding in a passenger car as opposed to a freight car. Also, the steam trains I saw as a kid pulling passenger cars went FAST. The one freight train I have is 100% "operating" cars.

Mostly freight.  I have one set of MTH premier passenger cars which I would love to run. However, since freight cars are generally shorter I think they look less awkward running on a smaller diameter layout.  

I like to run both!.....................Rogerw.

Both. But would add another passenger train if I could find more Heavyweights in the Pullman Green colors. Those are the cars I remember more.

Both 

Thank you all for your replies to my thread. I can see that many in here are doing both and that a few choose to do passenger only.

 

Pete

 

Both.

 

Never planned on passenger trains, but after buying a set, they were so nice I had to have more!  

 

Prefer the AL cars over ABS.  

 

I like 15" 18" & 21" cars.  Each will have a place on my new layout.

  Hers's my answer..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_WjCrtmgk

I build small simple displays, so passenger trains are the easiest way to add illumination.

Both. I do mainly steam era. My favorite trains are Art Deco streamliners and billboard reefers, especially beer cars.

I guess a good way ot answer is to say of I only could run one what would it be? Thankfully, that is not the case.

 

My pretties and most nostalgic trains are the passenger sets. I only have 3. A beautiful 8 car Daylight with GS-4. An almost equally (nothing is as pretty as the Daylight) 5 car PRR Tuscan set behind a trio of A-B-A E-3's. Finally, I have a NYC Northern commuter train. Lovely in its simplicity.

 

The thing is though, freight trains offer so much more variety in rolling stock that given a choice between the genres, they would prevail. I have the equivalent of 4 freight trains (2 diesel, 1 electric, and 1 steam)

i like both but have a preference for Freight.  Maybe after 30 years of LIRR commuting I've had enough passenger trains

Not too much interest in passenger operations, but I attribute that to being a child of the 70's--I've never seen anything but Amtrak on the rails.  On top of that, my max curves are O36, so there's not a ton of opportunity to run big passenger consists.

I do have the three Lionel Chessie Steam Special sets from 1980, 2005, and 2014.  They're very popular with visitors to the layout.

50-50 Passenger and Freight modeling post war.

I run both

Gentlemen,

   On most things in life Passenger Train Collector (Brian) and I seem to agree, however because my 1st train as a boy was the 263E Tin Plate Work Train, I am partial to Work Trains even today, in fact my new Legacy Shay is definitely a work train, my Great Grandfather drove one as they logged the Pa Grand Canyon area, a stones throw from my forest property & log cabin today.

PCRR/Dave 

I have too many of both.  That is as it should be.

I buy locomotive sets that inspired me as a child, then collect a train for them to haul suitable to their era.  So far, I have built 9 trains of which 3 are passenger.  Freight trains are less expensive to collect, but I could not do without a Pioneer Zephyr, ATSF Fast Mail, or El Capitan (coming soon).  If someone ever manufactures an EMD CB&Q E-5 worth owning, I will work on several CB&Q, C&S, FW&D passenger projects to wind up with a more even mix of freight and passenger.

I like both....period!!..

 

Alan

I run both, but at the shows I like to run Freight as that adds more interest for the  people watching the layout. Especially when I run varied freight. Flat cars with different loads work well. A long string of box cars tend to lose interest quickly.

Both my first HO and O sets were frieght.  Frieght does give you many mix-and-match options and has a lot of interactive play value (I run mostly lionel postwar), but I always dreamed of those long shiny aluminum streamliners.  So now I run both, usually my layouts had 2 main lines: passenger on the outside and frieght on the inside with access to some accessory sidings.  There is something to getting down to eye level and watching a passenger train on a long straight away and seeing each car break into the curve at the end.