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Hi Everyone I must admit that the radii from R104 through to R184 look much more realistic whereas the radii from R24 - R88 look more like what you would see on a fairground ride where tight radii would more likely be required. I have never ever had the opportunity to try and build a lego model railway as my mum and dad ( rest their souls in the great upstairs with st peter ) always said it was too expensive and wouldn't buy me a set so my experience of lego trains was limited to just using non lego railway pieces and build a 2 or 3 coach train that way. consequently my experience of any advice or help I would be able to offer will be based on my experience on 12 volt electric OO Gauge trains. In respect of track radii, instead of using fixed radius curved track as was mentioned in some of the previous posts, I try to build my curved sections using flexible track which can be set up to match the lego equivalent of the radii from R104 up to R184. The idea with what I do is to try to start the curved section on a straight then begin to form the curved section a few inches into the track pieces that will create it, in short starting snd terminating the curved track on a straight ( hope this makes sense ). I often try to use that idea based on my thoughts as if I was a passenger sitting in 1 of my model train coaches and thought hmmm, would I want my head banging against the window everytime the train went into a curved section, I doubt it, so when possible now I try to implement that idea, it doesn't always work depending on what formation I am trying to create with my track pieces aswell as available space which in a lot of cases can be the decisive factor in determining what can be created, hopefully someday I might get to experience lego trains myself.

Certainly has the looks of a powerful tank locomotive, well done.

I imagine that would be quite an expensive shopping list of parts needed in order to build the loco as per the pictures, still quite an impressive beast of a model.