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[#welcome] Michael, It comes down to personal choice. The Aristo rail stays bright yellow and sleepers are black. The LGB rail goes very dull and the sleepers are brown. As you point out, Aristo has bigger curves, and is generally cheaper. The Aristo rail joiners come with little screws that screw into the side of each rail. They are fidley to get in and a lot of people moan about it. But you can leave them out and it will work. If you are going to be setting out the track and packing it up all the time (on your deck) my feeling is the LGB would be better because of the shape of the rail joiner. If you are putting it down once permanently there is pobably little difference. You can mix them, but the rail profiles are slightly different, so you will need to modify the rail joiner slightly to get them to join. That's Ok if you are setting up once, by no good if you set up and pack it away all the time. You will end up damaging too many joiners, and have to buy new ones. When it comes to points there is a differnce. LGB points are better because you can run any make of loco through them. Aristo points can cause problems for some LGB and USA trains locos, and you may need to modify them to get good operation (if you only plan on buying Aristo trains, you won't have any problems). If you have the room and the $, don't get the small radius points, get the next size up. You will be greatful later on. Points aside, trains run just as well on either track so it's really up to you. Glen Anthony.
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