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TO JPMORRISON: What do you mean "last piece of track"? I'm on my fourth layout and have never been content with the first laying. I've let the layout set in plywood prairie for as long as six to seven months using coke cans as storage tanks and small cardboard boxes as factorys and depots. As soon as I start scenery I see a better way. It takes me a long time to lay track the first time but I feel that it isn't cast in stone so I will change it if it works better. I agree with DAVE9999. My new layout is an around the wall shelf in a 15'X15' room. This gives me 28" to 32" radius and they are nice. Where I used to think that 24" was big (and it was with an island layout) now I feel it is awful tight. I still run 36' cars late steam and early desiel. It looks nice to see a train of 20 cars and not have the locomotive headlight shinning into the caboose. My new BLI Santa Fe 4-8-4 arrived this week and it is awsome. When it is sitting on the track next to my United 4-8-4, at 4' it's hard to tell the difference and it's a whole lot cheaper. Bob Stephens
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