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I've been out of the hobby for many years, and have been hoping for 8 or 9 months to get back into it. I did primarily HO as a kid, and a little N. I preferred HO. With adult life being much different than Kid life, I cannot imagine myself making anything but the smallest layout. I want to enjoy it, but not have it be a huge committment. I also don't want to take up tons of space with it. Although my wife and I have the space, I simply do not want this hobby to get out of control. This leaves me with two choices: an HO switching layout without continuous running, or an N scale layout with continuours running. N scale seems more tempting all the time. I'll see these cool HO passenger cars at hobby shops, etc., and I seriously cannot imagine ever having a layout big enough in my life to run that stuff. And I love all the modern engines. But running them in HO is going to be difficult. I've also been considering doing some HO traction modelling. It may end up coming down to this for me: a small shelf N-scale layout, where the back portion of a loop is hidden (i.e. - the trains only pass through the scene once), and a small HO switching layout or Traction layout on top of it (like the way the super hard core guys have double decker layouts, but I'd just have a double decker shelf). This way I could make a bunch of cool buildings & stuff in HO, but then also run trains on the N scale layout. Hmmmmm.... As with any hobby I get involved in, as I get older, I'm starting to realize I don't have to go to extremes. These home-filler layouts in the magazines are super cool and inspiring, but they're just not realistic for me. As a kid, I always figured I'd want those, but now that seems crazy, unless I could retire at age 35!
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