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Thanks for all the input so far, folks. It's definitely helping me think this through. For what it's worth, since the subject came up a few times, the curves I'm speaking of are either in the corners (to keep the train from hitting the wall, as someone said) or at the end of peninsulas to turn and go back the other side. The former are all not visible so strictly a matter of operability/reliability to my way of thinking, the latter mostly are visible, but unfortunately those are also the drivers of my space constraint - I've done a dozen different plans, but any time I use 30" curves I lose at least an entire peninsula and have to have some 24" aisleways, or lose two peninsulas and stick to my hoped-for 36" aisleways... Along the walls/long part of the peninsula, I am using some wide, sweeping curves of the 60"+ variety, that are much more scenic devices to avoid paralleling the edge of the benchwork than actual 'curves' to turn corners, etc... I'll try working the trackplan to a point where I can post it here. Right now it's so small and hard to read (at the size I could post it), that I'm not sure it would make any sense.
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