New Haven Joe posted:From the photos it looks as if you have a large collection of scale length engines and cars. You also have a larger collection of traditional sized equipment.
I suggest that you try to use a minimum of O-72 curves throughout your track plan so that you can run scale length engines and cars. Some of your mainline curves appear to be a bit smaller than O-72.
I know a person who runs a scale length Lionel Big Boy on O-63 but the overhang is awful. He can't run the engine at all on his inner loop. The bigger the curves the better.
If you didn't have all those beautiful shelves full of trains, I would also suggest that you consider an around the wall layout. Around the wall layouts generally give you more layout space for a given size room. NH Joe
Thanks for the feedback.
The outside loop is O-72, the middle is O-54 and the inner is O-31. I wish I had room for more O-72 but I really want lots of building, lights, etc. on the layout.
Fortunately, I belong to the NJ Hi-Railers and we have LOTS of large runs and that's where I run my large steam. I just bought a couple of sets of O Scale Haulers on sale and that will make it a lot easily to get stuff back and forth. Also, members at the NJHR store trains and have display cabinets so I also have a good number of large items there.
A round-the-wall layout would be good except it didn't make sense to me to have all those locked up in my storage unit!
