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Short diesels, espicaly switchers, are the way to go on a small layout. The old atlas s2, yellow box, has a roco austrian drive that is just perfect for small layouts. I prefer the older atlas diesels to the newer ones, the older ones had either a kato drive or a roco drive. both run very well and dont have all the little seperate details to get broken when handling on a small switching layout. They mainly have alco diesels, S2, RS1, RS3, ect. If you prefer EMD locomotives, Lifelike proto 2000 does an excellent SW locomotive, as did Kato. Try to invest in more in both the locomotive and the powerpack, you will be glad you did later on. Peco makes great power routing turnouts in the track dept. The points are sprung loaded, you just pu***hem to the route you want and the power shuts off to the closed route and turns on to the route you selected. I currently run a pair of Atlas/roco drive Alco S2's and an old Atlas/Kato RS1. on a small switching layout. all three run nice an slow and quietly. Cheers Mike
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