necrails posted:Scale is nice but jeez the size of the curves make it all but impossible to fit a layout into a given space. 21 inch passenger cars, those Atlas auto carriers, not for me. However, the Atlas 60 foot trainman passenger cars look just fine. .......Also all of my motive power relatively short diesel, except for my 2 FM train masters. A Big Boy will never see my rails, just don't have the space and probably never will.
That's how it is for me as well. No basement, therefore no big locos or big cars, simple as that. Even if I had room for 0-72 curves, the big stuff is going to look stupid without long straight-aways that can accomodate it. So, big Northerns, Mountains, etc., nope; articulateds, nope; 50' or larger cars, nope; big 6-axle diesels, nope; 18 inch or longer passenger cars, nope. Like others have said, for me it's either shorter scale items or semi-scale, or else it isn't going to work. I suspect similar considerations apply to the vast majority of O gauge operators.
