gnnpnut posted:palallin posted:People don't use trains to travel 4 miles. Heck, I don't even use a car all the time to do 4 or 5 miles. 20 miles? That's still a short, short-line. There are industrial sites that have more than 4 miles of track on the same property.
My trains travel hundreds of miles, KC to Birmingham; St. Louis to Paris, TX; Carthage, MO, to Memphis; etc. All in 5 x 10 feet.
I say enjoy your trains however you want to, but I want my trains to travel more realistic distances.
Pallalin, based on your photograph, I'll assume that you do Civil War reenactments? Using a similar analogy to your observations regarding the "current mantra that point-to-point is more realistic" is akin to my saying that your Civil war activities are not realistic since you are not firing live rounds out of your small arms and artillery. You make compromises in that hobby also, and I'm sure that your reenactment battlefields don't mimic the size of the real battles either.
Certainly! We don't eat rancid food, either, judging dysentery to be too authentic 
That said, we all have to choose what compromises we make. I want my trains to run long distances without stopping. I will accept passing the same town numerous times to make that happen.
I say my way is better for me. I say your way is better for you. I will not say that either way is simply better. Point-to-point is not better, which is the current mantra of the "voices" of the hobby. It accomplishes a purpose loops cannot. But they, in turn, accomplish a purpose point-to-point cannot. And that statement was my point in responding to the thread.
