Howdy, y'all.
I got started in Lionel 40 years ago, with a starter set that came with an oval of O27 track and a basic blue transformer. Anyway, I built up a modest collection and eventually upgraded my O27 track with 42" diameter curves.
Unfortunately, 2½ years ago, lightning struck a tree and brought a humongous limb across our house. After I evacuated and had to temporarily stay in an extended stay hotel, someone got in and looted everything that wasn't a book. (This includes a few custom creations, my collection of 1/43 scale cars, my MTH black Southern F-M Trainmaster #6301, and other items that [i]magically[/i] became hard-to-find over the past decade.)
Anyway, I've decided to rebuild my collection from scratch and so far I've replaced my MTH orange/green passenger station and picked up 5 pieces of rolling stock -- RailKing and Lionel Southern boxcars, a Lionel TTUX spline car set with "Southern Railway System" trailers, a rare Southern flatcar with trailer, and a frame for a 2000s Santa Fe two-level auto rack carrier. But what style of track do you recommend I invest in for a new layout, even if I don't have any more than a single oval with 42" curves? Classic O27, Classic "Standard O", or one of the newer "FastTrack" systems?
This is a picture of my last TTUX unit (originally with SP trailers) carrying a Southern trailer and a hand painted trailer based on Optimus Prime's (with the indigo-colored container frame from the Nesquik trailer). In front are some of my resin-cast "layout cars".
