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The best advice I could give you is to decide what are you interested in. Do you like modern big trains, or small logging lines, or what (there are a bunch of options here). Then what do you plan to do with the trains once you are done: Do you want to turn them on and sit back and watch them run, or do you want to actively participate and spot cars at locations. Do you want to run mult. trains at one time? Are you more interested in the whimsical, accuracy to era/detail, or run what you like. If you are far enough along in this hobby these questions may make sence, if not that is ok to, but they will help you tailor what you want and how we respond, and pondering these questions may help you determine what you want to buy/build & how to do it. As a basic example a logging line will more commonly have steeper grade & curves, while a modern RR will have very little grade and broad curves, and the layout you build for either will look entirely different. But back to your original question, which you may or maynot have found an answer to. 45mm track ( also known as G, or #1 guage) track is the main outdoor track used. LGB, USA trains, Aristo, Accucraft, MTH, & large scale Bachmann (& and some others MFGers) all run on this track. This equipment and the solid rail track (that would be excluding Bachmann, and some other MFGers track which are hollow in the middle of the rail ) are designed to run outdoors and generally can handle the UV rays (sunlight without damaging it). Although storage of equipment unprotected outdoors is not recomended. Can any other gauge track be used, YES, but they are less commonly used outdoors (although several people on this site use other gauges). One would need to be more selective and more informed as to what, track/ equipment to buy (some will deteriorate outdoors, due to being unprotected (sunlight/rain/etc)), as they are designed for indoor running. So the answer to the track question is, pick a guage that suits you, once that is detirmined, all equipment designed for that guage track will run on that track. Next: Batt vs track power is a very big topic and I recomend you reseach the forums on that one as I am under the impression that it may be equally split on that topic. The main conseration there is ability to, pay for, wire up (or pay someone to do it for you) a batt powered ( and willing to charge it), vs willing to clean track and maybe wire up blocks, or buy a DCC system. This area can be very complex. No matter what you choose, one can always change there mind later. Good luck
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