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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MAbruce It really depends on what you want out of your layout... N-scale shines in the scenery to track ratio, and allows you to run longer trains. Availability has also improved and just continues to get better. But you also have to be comfortable working with smaller items. Great scenery and detail can be achieved, but I have to admit that HO provides more opportunity to super detail. BTW: I model in N-scale. [:D] [/quote] Yeah, what he said. I also model N-scale, and I am one of those fellows who hand bends grab irons and other details for my engines. I initially planned on switching to HO, but the quality of N scale was good enough for me, and I could do more of what I wanted in the space I had, so I went with N scale after all. I would be doing intricate need-a-magnifier type details in HO anyway, so it's not like going with the smaller scale meant that I was working with more intricate details. So it didn't matter whether I went with N or HO in that respect. But that's how I model. Each modeler has to decide what they want, like some of us said in a recent thread concerning the same basic question. For example, if you want long modern trains on a mainline, you would pretty much have to go with N-scale in that space. If you want to model the intricate details of a steam engine, and have most visitors be able to see them with an unaided eye, then you would have to go with HO. ---jps
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