I've gone back in and modified my working design to be on 24" radius rather than 20 (with the exception of one piece of track work that is supposed to be really tight, and will remain 20") I've decided to stick with #5 frogs for most of the layout simply because of space requirements. #6's add so much to the yard ladder especially. I did use a couple of #6's where I had space for them on the "main line", but other than 5's are the word. I still plan to run 64 foot hoppers over this, but I feel much better about it than I did the other night.

I plan to do some experiments before I build in erest to see if I like the way these things look, but until I have the chance to do that, I'm happy and continuing to work on the current incarnation rather than starting over more or less from scratch.