And that all in a schedule. Yes, I have a freelance-layout where I can incorporate prototypical situations, were time and speed are really an illusion and were material from all over the world can and will perform together. A modelrailroad is in my humble opinion an illusion. I do not see why I should not buy the 1870 engine and let it run a usefull service next to a very modern train. In real life everything is based on history.
Every excisting situation is explained in history.
The same works for the modelrailroad. Here we go. A couple of hundred years ago an isle was dicovered by some people of a German-tribe. The discoverers decided to stay there and start a new life. The german-tribes who sailed the seas, used to live in the lower parts of Europe, now called the Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark.