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[quote user="Agamemnon"] <P>For me, the november MR was about the most depressing thing ever. It basically said that unless you have 30" curves, you shouldn't bother running passenger cars, long locos or basically anything interesting. And I was looking forward to the Trix 32-axle Schnabel*...</P> <P>* The manufacturer states it can go through a 15" curve, which is pretty amazing for a car that's about 28" long.</P> <P>I probably COULD make a layout with 30" mainline curves, but I wouldn't have room for anything more complex than an oval. Ergo, I am feeling very :-( about it.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>I'm lucky enough to have enough space to do a 30" minimum layout, but still agree with you about the tone of the thing. It really did come across sort of condescending. </P> <P>Even with a relatively large space for my layout, I had to go with 28" min mainline radius (for the inner track on a dual mainline) and down to 24-25" in hidden areas to get anything even approaching the mainline length I wanted... And a couple of those hidden areas will be so ONLY because they're smaller radius. My perception is that 30" radius curves throughout is unrealistic for probably the majority of layouts - particularly if (as you say) you want more than a loop. Certainly I'd say even the feartured layouts in the magazine itself have <30" mainline a clear majority of the time. So treating it as sort of a "bare minimum" simply excludes a huge chunk of the hobby...</P>
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