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According to a recent survey by Kalmbach, HO still leads in popularity by a large margin, with about 73 percent of modelers saying HO is their primary scale, and another 6.4 percent saying it's a scale they dabble in, even if their main modeling efforts are in something else. N Scale is the second highest. A quarter of the modelers out there use N scale either as their primary or secondary modeling. O is third with 13 percent of the modelers using it, followed by 10 percent in Gn3, 4 percent in S, 2 percent in Z and 1 percent in No. 1. (On Z scale, only .3 percent say it's their primary scale, and .4 percent say it's secondary.) Those numbers may be changing, however, as the larger scale trains seem to be making a resurgence, both in basements and in gardens. The favorite era remains the time of transition from steam to diesel, 1949 to 1960, attracting 44 percent of model railroaders. The present, from 1990 onward, captures 16 percent, and 1934-45 attracts 13 percent. Only two model the 19th century, though that time does seem to be attractive to the garden crowd. Finally, nearly half of model railroaders base their layout on a prototype. The Northeast and Midwest of the U.S. are the most popular regions, each getting about 22-23 percent. Other regions are in single digits, including the Rocky Mountains at 9 percent. Of course, times change, and so will those numbers when the next survey is done. TC for t.c
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