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N scale is what I model in. HO or S is my preference. However, for what I want, N was able to deliver; I can have the empire I want versus's a smaller HO layout. I personally don't like N scale by itself on bare plywood. To me, it looks kind of pathetic. But, when you get a layout that looks good, N scale fits right in. To my taste, N needs a more completed layout to look good. The best modular unit I saw at our Vancouver NMRA train show was in N scale; then I didn't notice the scale at all. With Kato, Atlas, and the newer Life Like, and believe it or not, Bachmann's latest offer in the Consolidation steam, engines are runnig very well. Steam is about to take some leaps and bounds in the next year, in N scale. Some use Z scale couplers on their trains, but why bother. You would be better served to make the layout look great (scenery and structures) and worry less about the couplers. What code you use is a matter of debate, loyalties, preferences, and patience. If Atlas code 55 were made the same as Peco 55, I would use that; but it isn't. So my preference is Peco 55; once it is ballasted and painted, it looks pretty much bang on. With Peco 55 you can run anything. Peco 55 and 80 turnouts are excellent. I like N scale because I find it forces me to pay more attention to layout construction, design, scenery and structures; in terms of an agenda to get most of it done, so my N scale trains will look good. N scale is primarily a diesel scale - I know many run steam. But if you go completely contemporary, with SD90's etc, and long cars in the consist, the size begins to approach HO. In fact, if you go contemporary, I think N scale appears more appropriate and HO begins to look like G scale.
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