Super O is still fabulous looking track and it was 36" diameter, if I'm not mistaken. I know from reading Lionel history that their people were working a long time on finding a nice looking replacement for tinplate track. The composite materials they developed for that track seem to have stood up well and is why the track took so long to perfect. Those were times when an item didn't leave the factory if it had any detectable flaw. My feeling is that they were at least 5 years late in producing Super O. The tide had turned against O gauge trains by the time it was released, but I'm another who fell in love at first sight when that '57 catalog came out. Always have loved the look of it and I think I have read in another post here that there are a few people who have been able to re-curve it into wider a radius. There's still a lot of it kicking around on the bay and train shows.
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