If you have built your layout to represent a specific day in history what day is it, for example mine is based on a Saturday, that way the industry’s can be devoid of activity except for some switching, but there will still be lots of mainline action,
that’s my reason anyway,
Do you have a favourite day of the week for your railroad to operate and do the scene’s and industry reflect this day
I voted for Sunday, as that’s the main day I model. See, I model a little branchline, and it gets only enough traffic to warrent two local trains a week, Sunday and Thurday. I usually don’t run both days though, so I just run the Sunday run of the train. But occasionally I break off and run a middle of the week run, as if I want to run a Ballast train I don’t do that on Sundays, the Mine is closed on Sundays.