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Reply to "Engines Requiring Large Radius Curves--why?"

"I am in the process of including  2 loops of 072 just so I can run some of the beautiful 072 models."

"But I'm curious to know what is driving the need for big curves when the sales incentive would seem to go the other way." 

#1 answers # 2.

Equipment isn't generic. I have 072 curves, except in certain yards where the big stuff (like the real world) never goes. Loco B will not substitute for Loco A when you want Loco A. I do not want "a loco/train/car"; I want "that loco/train/car". The incentive is indeed to make the biggest as flexible as possible; the cost of development is about the same, big or small, but the retail price we will pay will go up or down based partly on size. 

"Does the issue relate to scale versus traditional or near-scale? Is it the swing of the trucks? The overhang of the ends of the machine hitting tunnel portals and other track-close stuff?" 

All of that, and more.

"But I won't dare let the 072 guys stray into 054 territory when this is done."

They won't be able to (mostly; there's often fudge in the ratings - not always, though).

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