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[quote user="dknelson"]It has always seemed to me that the German manufacturers combined a limited view of the hobby with a strange attitude towards competition.  Although there are some superb European modelers, for those most part you see almost toylike looking track plans -- by which I mean fixed radius curves coming out of perfect tangents -- coming out of Germany, for all the advanced electronics and watch like runnng characteristics of the trains themselves.  As if something about flex track upsets their notions of form and order.   It is hard to imagine any of the German manufacturers getting to a modular type construction or actually crafting their kits to encourage kitbashing.[/quote] Dave - true words!But those fixed radius curves is what you will find on your average 4 by 8 table top layout as well... [:D]German houses are much smaller, so we have to work with tighter radii and turnouts - [sigh] , but we all dream of a train empire. Can you imagine the immense cultural shock for me, when I opened up my first copy of MR in 1969, seeing layouts like John Allen`s famous Gore & Daphetid. Here I was, stuck with that 14" tin track from Marklin...
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