"Serious" model railroad operations are a lot of fun, but if you have a continuous loop option on a model railroad, you can have a different kind of fun, where trains chase each other around the mainline and the amount of effort to avoid collisions is less, although still non-zero, depending on the skill and attention span of those driving the trains. A few days ago some friends brought their new locos over for some testing, and yes, we ended up chasing trains around the room. Another friend brought a fancy video camera to try, so the result is now posted on Youtube as "Part 50" here: https://youtu.be/naOXc_DObGY
I do have a more serious video in production, about how to turn the "Pacific Zip" intermodal train when it arrives in Seattle, but that will take some more editing time.
When I started making model railroad operations videos a few years ago, and then started numbering them in a series, I had no idea how quickly I would get up to having a part 50. Making videos has become another major sub-hobby, and I'll be giving a couple of clinics about it this spring, one at the NMRA Pacific Northwest Region (PNR) conference in Tacoma on May 11, and another at the Railway Modelers Meet of British Columbia on May 28. Except for the most recent one, they were all done with just an iPhone and sometimes a GoPro or cheap spycam.
Meanwhile, here's a photo of some switching action that took place even while the trains were chasing each other around the room on the mainline:
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