Sure, I love to see the long, magnificent consists of Golden Gate Cars, or scale streamliners, but let's face it: many of us just don't have the room on our home layouts. I got the idea of "Pike-sized passenger trains" from another web site, and am going to try to reproduce some at home.
First one, the mid-1970's Washington section of the National Limited. A Washington-Kansas City coach was pulled by a GG1 between DC and Harrisburg, PA. There the coach was added to the full train from New York.
Easy to do on the home layout!