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There seems to be alot of disappointment with the HO 18 inch radius curves. I find them useful to get little engines and cars to the industry customers in a tight space. Engines and long cars like 24" or bigger. Some ready to run product in the stores will have a small warning on box stating minimum radius. Certianly one can always squeeze it down smaller curves. Or try to one time. Let us think of the 18 inch radius not as a block to large equiptment, but rather as a area where Big Engines and Big Cars cannot go. This should more than justify your switchers and small cars etc. My future main will have several large curves where normally straight track would be and I think other scenic areas such as a stream, river or buildings (backyard gardens etc) that the train needs to work around creates an impression of a long train out of a 14 car unit. (14 cars and a caboose is long enough for me) Images of multiunit lashups and 75 car double stack trains need about 50-60 feet to fit. I find it amusing that we are worried about finding 18 inches of room when we dream of that long train we like to run. Good Luck! Lee
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