Ilong ago discovered that there are some model railroaders who don't much like railroad passenger service. Their layouts offer no Amtrak or VIA service. They have no models of the Twentieth Century Limited, Super Chief, or even a lowly daily local or commuter run. They don't even offer their few potential Preiser or Woodland Scenics passengers a ride on a drover's caboose or an old combine tacked onto the end of a slowly moving freight. Maybe somewhere in the far reaches of Canada a mixed train or two still survives, but you would have a better chance of finding one south of the border, meaning south of the U.S.-Mexican border and heading towards Chile (way south). The former Quebec, North Shore & Labrador Ry., now Tshiuetin Rail Transportation,. Inc., still lists a mixed train between Sept-Iles and Shefferville, Quebec, on their internet timetable, and the Durango & Silver-ton Narrow Gauge R.R. had or still has a boxcar in the consist of some of its trains, but it is more of an express or baggage car.
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