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Which scale you use depends on your skill and how much time and $ you want to spend. HO is generally less expensive, and has much more off the shelf items. It's also easier to scratch build. N and Z give more train running area, but detail and scenery become harder to do and much more expensive. Scratch building anything in Z is extremely difficult, a 2X4scale board is smaller than a hair. As to track, handlayed looks nice but is labor intensive. I like code 83 flex track in HO. Some use other and I respect their choice, but I like code 83 for price v looks v reliability v avalibilty. In N the choices are less, and Z i don't think there is much of a choice to track size. Does anyone handlay Z track? If I was doing a Historical layout I would do HO due to the large amount of scratch building and kitbashing you will have to do to be accurate. I think it would be much harder in N and almost, nay, impossibe in Z.
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