@c.sam posted:What a great video of Jonathan's club - well worth a watch! I think I heard the narrator say they can run 18 trains on 4 mainlines.
Thanks Sam! The record is 18 trains under DCC on the mainline. Not long trains and it takes a skilled hand to operate them all without causing accidents. My preference there has always been one long train, but I don't hold that record. The longest train run on that layout was 144 car long ore train. My longest was 75 cars, but they were all 40' and longer cars.