Text that was here was entered in wrong place. Meant it to be as a quote in another's post. So I edited it out by deleting it entirely and writing this instead, as there seems to be no way of taking down completely the original post once it's there. There is no 'delete this post " that I can find.
I knew I read somewhere that a #4 would be considered close to an 18" radii, #6 to a 22" radii: Quote from the NMRA http://www.nmra.org/beginner/track ) And I'm not stating you are wrong in your statement, but just explaining what I had read and as such, passed along to the OP.