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Does that mean cardboard structures covered in wood siding? I find my eye drawn to the doors with heavy diagonal bracing, and the... uh... drawbridges on the... uh... I can tell it's good, but I'm not familiar with what a real industrial structure of this era looked like.

Maybe some of your cars have deep flanges and you're trying to put them through a turnout with shallow flangeways? Oh... this is HO, that problem's more likely in N. Maybe some switches aren't throwing all the way? Or some cars are out of gauge?

I was wondering if it was an SY. The cab and tender were confusing things, but I thought the smokebox looked familiar. The unusual combination here is Boxpok drivers with spoked pilot and trailing wheels. Most late American steam had solid carrying wheels. But since most 2-8-2s weren't late...

Really? Heavier 2-8-2s and 4-6-2s often ended up with 6-axle tenders. This engine's smaller, but the tender doesn't look too big. Backdating to when? Are you just trying to make the engine look older, or is your layout set in an earlier time frame? I'd be concerned about the Boxpok drivers. I...

Okay, that one is clearly the Life-Like saddle tank.

Reminds me a lot of many British layouts. I guess it's the hidden end curves. I don't think the plausibility issue with the blue line is with curves. Most N-scale passenger cars will get around 11". They'll look cumbersome doing it, but you've hidden most of that. My issue is with grades. Where...

Truly a scene to make N-scalers envious...

I read somewhere that more engines of the same design were being made up to the Berlin blockade and the start of the Cold War. The same event prevented the Little Joes from going to Russia and made them a familiar sight in the US and Brazil. However, as this was the late 1940s and these engines...

I meant that loco - I don't think I've seen that specific picture before. The rest is my signature, not part of the message.

Oh. I think you've posted that one before.

If you can accept that (moving most of your initial demands to the N layout), this should work. With curves in the 18" range, you can run basically anything in N, and they'll fit much easier.

http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/mehano147.html If that thing has a prototype, it's European. The 0-4-0T must be this http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/riv040.html or this http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/bach040.html

In a room this size in HO, if you can't have a duckunder or at least a swing/lift bridge, your options are severely limited. With those radii, turnback curves will take up most of your space. With a door in the corner, all you can manage is an L along two walls. And then you have to deal with...

The typical British Belpaire finds an American use. The only thing that stands out as wrong is the forward frame/pilot area. That curved "sweep" to the sides isn't normal in America, and certainly not on the PRR. I guess this would be an "I2"? The green's much brighter than PRR green, but this...

And at least one or two of the Cuban sugar railways actually were 30" gauge.

Weren't both Big Boys and Challengers built to an axle load of 67500lb? Lots of modern locomotives were substantially higher (74000 and 75000 lb/axle for N&W and ATSF 4-8-4s, IIRC.) The only power I know that comes close to the Alleghenies (heaviest batch 84000 lb/axle) are GN's heaviest 2-8-2s...

You can get lost on that site forever. There's so much craziness there. Not much of it relates to trains (but a lot relates to Russia).

Most photos of RDCs I've seen show them fairly clean.

Oho! Three bullet-nose Mountains? The one on the right looks good. The other two could use some cutting and filing.

They're called "offset-side hoppers."