Erik, your overview of full width diaphragms in the O scale market was very intersting. The Pecos cars look amazing! But the massive radius needed is a big deal breaker. I have plans to construct a building for my train layout and intend to lay larger curves but I’ll be lucky if I can keep the minimum to 0-96 and not be stuck with an oval. Hopefully my Daylight set will look good enough on that size curve.
Not many hobbyists have access to a large warehouse to build our layouts in to attain the minimum 15’ diameter curve to run a train that fine looking.