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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by cp1057 I concur with the others that you should stay with 4-wheel trucks on your locomotives, such as a GP or a switcher engine. Also take care with your rolling stock. On that kind of a layout try to have mostly 40' boxcars and comparable length flatcars, reefers, stock cars and tankers. Long cars on small radius track can cause the couplers to swing out on curves causing a number of problems. Charles Hillsburgh On [/quote]YA, I agree with everyone else too. Anything over 40' or more than 4 wheels per truck is going to give you trble. Some manufacturures will tell you that their 40 wheel so and so will run on 15" curves with no problems. Don't fall into that trap. The truth is most all off these big behemouths won't run on anything less than very wide radius curves without wiping out most of your trackside detail and leaving half the locomotive in it's place. Even 6 wheel trucks are generally too much for minimum radius curves.[:)]
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