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Gentlemen; The matter of minumum or optimum curves is a very deep and divided subject. If you run LGB as I do, R1 is ok I have some quite big units and they handle R3 quite well but they do look funny, particularly when reversing. I have settled on R3 which I think is 1.1 m diametre and I also only use electric R3 switches as a standard and it works for me with my grades and my rolling stock. What works for someone else could easily be another matter. As I bend my own rail i do not worry about having a straight between curves in esses, with LGB as long as you use roughly standard rail components you can do any thing you like. In my area 1 i used a whole lot of track i bought second hand and i had a lot of R1 standard cures and I put them in line and with opposite curves back to back and I have no trouble, well not much anyway. However when I started cutting these standard components down I had some incredibly odd things happen and it was hard to find out what the problem was when you kept on getting derailments, and even harder to fix them. So don't go any smaller than a standard component size irrespective of how you achieve same. Regards Ian
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