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OK.  Thank everyone.  I now know what a Dash-9 is and understand a little better the importance of curves and their radius.  The only thing I don't understand is how do you know what the radius of your curve is going to be when you start prepareing road bed? I have a garden-vac and a blower and I guess they will be SOP before turing on the train/s.  The area has within its boundries, full grown mature trees such as a Tulip Poplar, Red Leaf Maple, Apple Tree and a TN Black Locus (spelling?).  There is also a young Cypress in the mix.  Together they all make for a very large "leaf" problem for me every year.  I don't guess falling leaves, which occure all year, won't harm the track any.  It is a concern but will not let it stop me. I won't be running any big engines for quite a while.  My first will be a "Big Hauler" 4-6-0 from Bachman.  It will however have three passenger cars attached.  I assume 4 to 5' curves will be OK.  It will operate on the first installment of the RR, a simple loop well inside the perimeter of the garden.  A second  much larger loop will be added later with connections to the inside loop. Which brings me to another question.  How difficult is it to add switches to the track after the fact?  Or, should the switches be installed at the beginning even though they don't connect to anything? Man, do I have a lot to learn..................
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