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From your description of the other engines, sounds like they are all Rivarossi, which AHM sold in their own packaging 30+ years ago.Your proposed layout size, if any kind of a continuous loop, limits you to 22" radius as a maximum. The Big Boy and GG1 engines will go around them, but as Larry says, they won't look very good. Way too much overhang, too. The 4-6-2's will look better, but really these are only passenger engines, so unless you use Athearn 'shorties', or MDC 'Harrimans' for passenger cars, the cars won't look very good on 22" radius either. <br />The size of your proposed layout is great,and an excellent beginner's layout could be fit in it, but if it were me, I'd put the big engines on display, on an unpowered siding or two, and run first generation diesels with freight cars. Good luck and regards.
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