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I plan my stuff with 24" minimum and #6 on the main and engine areas. There is room for the smaller engines to go where the big ones cant. "Operation" =) I would have one up and running already except I would have to go thru walls to get em to continiously run. My house is just too small. I do have a 12' by 5' dogbone staked out and in planning stages, gonna fold it over with a grade, and a 2x8' town on one end and a yard at the other. I will be running something by the end of the year. I have always loved big steam. But I also know to get that seafood down to the dock means my Heisler gets the job. Right now the biggest one I own is a BLI PRR 4-8-2 M1a. I figure if I can run that without all the shorting, sparkling and coupler digging into the ties I can run anything. A friend of mine has 22" curves. It is simply too tight for me. In ending, I view tight curves and small switches as a "operational Problem" that requires smaller engines such as the Heisler or the Ma and Pa 4-6-0 to complete the car movements.
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