I have a 10 x10 foot layout and I have one loop of 036 and one of 048. My advice to you is to go with the largest curves you can fit on your lzyout.
Premier 2-8-0's work for me. Love the detail.
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Got it - thanks Jim.
Moonman posted:Jhainer posted:Most of my stuff is 031 and 036 check out my videos
Hey J,
You really like to change your layout. Is this the 4th layout in the loft?
yea I get bored or find something I don't like and try to rework it then next thing you know I'm starting all over again 
In this pretentious era, should we ask: "what engines pair well with 036 curves?"
Just staying with the Millennial program.
mike w posted:Got it - thanks Jim.
And here's my Williams by Bachmann C&O Ten Wheeler on my O-27 layout's 90-degree crossing. Others are right. It is a smooth-running small-prototype scale locomotive that would be great on 36-inch curves.
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Hi David, I have had a scale EMD F3 unit running on my smallest loops, up in the hills, which means I rarely want to climb up there to fuss with it. It has been there for several years, trouble free and looking well on its small loop. I must admit, though, that at one point, I removed the B and rear A units and only run the front A, now. It seems best that way.
Early on, I had the ABA pulling a short passenger consist, but constant shorting-out had me puzzled for a while. Then, I discovered the sharp curves had been making the wheels on the coaches turn so far inward they were cutting through the insulation around the wires for the lighting and causing the shorting-out.
(Odd, right? But I thought I'd pass the experience along, here, on the off-chance anybody else, or you, may encounter the same trouble, someday.)
I removed the passenger consist, permanently, running only a consist of ore cars, nowadays.
FrankM
P.S. You might be able to make it out up there on its Second Level small-curves loop, right at the church.
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