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I model a railroad, one that serves to move freight and persons from one place to another. N-scale gives me the opportunity to actually model "places", rather than just "scenery". Obviously, if given an unlimited amount of space, a larger scale will offer greater fidelity. But I consider the miniaturization of the journey to be of paramount importance, which means I must be able to go to genuinely different places as I follow my train. It's all about context; the most fragile, delicate, intricately perfect model does nothing to transport me when it is forced into an implausibly compressed scene. <br /> <br />I've been in N-scale for nearly 20 years, and good lord has it grown up in that time. I'm not quite detail-obsessed enough to speak from experience, but I do know that there are options for those that want scale wheels and couplers, etc. I encourage you to consider not the small details when thinking of scale, but rather the big picture... make the mountain impassable enough to deserve its tunnel, make the industry large enough to be inefficiently served by anything other than rail, make your stations sit more than a train length apart, make your forests tall and proud, and you'll start seeing what we mean when we say N-"SCALE".
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