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 Hoho: FIrst: Please please, always indicate what scale you are running, its critical to any advice being near the mark. That said, have a look at the NMRA website ( www.NMRA.org ) under the tab 'standards and recommended practices' for minimum radii for various length cars. Also, if your layout is actually 40 inches by 11 feet as your post indicats AND you are in HO scale, you don't have much room for passenger cars. Subtracting 8 inches for table-edge standoff you are left with 16 inch radius curves, tight by any standards. You can expect to run turn of the century wood passenger coaches ( about 50 scale feet with four wheel ftucks) IF your track work is perfect and you operate at low speed. Think seriously about modeling Civil War era. Anything longer will give consistent problems. Randy
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