I can't fault you for your use of people, as I only know of 6 people on my whole railroad, other than engine crews, and that Jordan miniatures bus bull of folks making the trip from the Southern Railway station @ Harlow (sadly off the layout due to lack of space-and or poor planning) to the Harlow terminal
I have two guys in the big (two stall) engine house in Harlow, there are two employees and a passenger in my shortened La belle combine (hands down the finest passenger car on my RR. Up at the strong & Perry sawmill, there is a guy sitting on his *** instead of loading lumber on that Mack truck to get it across the bridge to where it can get loaded in a box car, and way up in State line Ga. there is a guy napping on the front porch of his cabin, with his LBG (Little Brown Jug).
My little people were mostly evacuated for safety during the childhood of my offspring, and are scattered all over hades in various boxes with other fragile details. It would do me good to get a bunch of them out and on the layout. I also have a large crew that I have been working on painting for for the big donkey @ the camp in Terapin .)
And speaking of donkeys, Did Santa come through with those Bachman Units? when He does get one of them into my hansds so I can build some bigger skids for them. If I damage it in dissasembly, I'll replace it with one of mine when I get one.
Bill Nelson