Thanks for your time and wonderful letter with the pictures. I got all my 027 gauge Lionel stuff and and am going to make room on my layout to at least set up a small track. I only have 4 years going on my HO layout so it won't be a major problem converting but I do have a lot going on so far. Mine started out with a little set to go on top of my grand piano at Christmas. Then I remembered I had an old HO set from back in the 70's down the basement. I found that and it just snowballed from there. I think I just got going too fast with the HO. I'm going to give the O gauge a try. Thanks again.