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Yeah mate get into it; But here is what I would consider. The best bit of advice I ever recieved in Garden railroading was "do it small at first then your mistakes and mind changes will be small"."Less is more" Well I ignored this as i thought I wasn't going to make any mistakes or change my mind. But I did both of these things, even changed sites as i moved interstate, so just do it little to start. Your venue looks very interesting I'd love to have it. To this end what about getting something going on one island first, then after you have learned a bit from experience, move on. Then get something going on your other island all the time you are going about these two separate activities, keep in mind your masterplan what you hope to end up with. Actually draw up a rough plan of what you hope to achieve in the overall layout. Kepp it in mind and refer back to it as you go along and I bet you change your mind about many details and probably a few major things as well. As far as track is concerned I wouldn't even consider anything else beside Aristo or LGB or something made out of a similar metalic brass combination. I think Aristo has more zinc and less copper than LGB which seems to me to corrode much less quickly, particularly here in the tropics. But of course nothing is free and in theory the LGB with more copper should be a better conductor of electricity. I have an aristo set of points(switches) and have found nothing wrong with it but i use almost exclusively LGB and I use bigger curve ones, electrically operated. More expensive but worthwhile (I wasn't going to have any switches either). I like the idea of a dogsbone in fact I am about to start on my Area 3, which will be a folded dogsbone see page 25 "Garden Railroading" my bible. If you havent got this book get it before you do a thing; its a Kalmbach Book. I am sold on LGB rolling stock and loco's particularly if you have some curves, their patented bogey (truck I think) sets them apart from all others. But its your money and your railway and good luck with it. Ian Kawana Island tropical Railway.
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