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"From which scale did you enter large scale trains?"
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When I outgrew my toy hO trains in the sixties it was at that time that both N and G came out. I chose N because of the possibilities to build a nice display on a small surface. Then I slowly switched to larger layouts, and the prices went through the roof. Do you know how many expensive electric turnouts you can put on a small board? Way too many! And don't complain about the price of a complete LGB train, try buying the five full length N-gauge express trains that would run in that space! Every single time I went back to my train shop I still drooled over the big stuff, till finally in the early eighties I managed to talk a neighbour into buying all of my N stuff, and I bought a few LGB starter sets. Most have undergone some drastic rebuilding in the meantime, I just bought bought as base for conversions - my second (or secretely first?) reason to switch to a scale I could actually build something in. I've never regretted the switch! I even own a piece of LGB nostalgia: at a flea market I found a few years back a complete LGB battery train set, complete with the plastic track, no box but some extra stuff, for the enormous price of what would now be 2 Euro's.
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