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Hi, maybe be best thing is to think about what sort of trains u want to run? US style or European? Do u want to stick with narrow guage or go for standard guage. What manufacturers stock do u like the most? LGB have a very extensive range, and they use the scale 1:22.5. What u have to remember with LGB is that it is loosely based on European Austrian/ Swiss metre guage(100cms). Also some of the Locos that LGB produced were not designed for metre guage, but either 600cm, 750cm. LGB compromised on the model specifications to bring it into the standard of 1:22.5 on 45mm track. That works fine with Euopean type locomotives. Tho they also produce American outline, again it has been roughly adapted to the European metre guage where as in real life the US guage was 3ft not 1 metre In real life the difference is 3.5 inches roughly. Bachmann follow the better scale for US 3ft Narrow guage scale of 1:20.3, but to be honest with u, run side by side there is little detectable difference. It's a personnel thing of how true to scale u want it to be. I'm happy to run with both because out in the garden it's difficult to find bits of mother nature working to these scales too! I guess most people will tell u that LGB is considered very good, the Locos have excellent running gear, able to last a long time and cope well with adverse weather, tho the Bachmann spectrum range are very good too. Rolling stock wise , the choice is entirely yours. The choice is pretty endless. Personnally I only use bachmann coaches, I think they are more realistic than LGB, but thats my own preference. Apart from LGB and Bachmann, it is also possible to get away with using equipement like Aristocraft (1:29) and only becomes obvious at the door opening sizes. I haver no problem running My Bachmann Climax and coaches on my Austrian themed railway, or running Austrian Locos and Bachmann coaches, because at the end of the day I like them. Hope thats a help. I guess u just have to decide between narrow or standard guage and how realistic u want it to be, and work with whichever scale u like the equipement of, but it does'nt /should'nt stop u running whatever u want to. My only word of caution would be Guage 3(64.3mm track, or thereabouts) it's becoming available here in the UK, at a price!!!!!!!!!, makes LGB and Bachmann look dirt cheap!
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