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I would recommend N-Scale based on your preference for the prairies. Large expanses of flat(ish) terrain is hard to convey in larger scales, without either doing a masterwork of a backdrop painting or else sacrificing most of your "discretional trackage" (i.e. the extra little industry spurs that we seem to cram into the odd corners and leftover spaces). Here's my General Purpose Rule-Of-Thumb: Always plan your layout by thinking in terms of the next larger scale. When I lay out track for my N-Scale layout, I am thinking in HO, so I end up with curves that are in the 18" - 24" range, track centers broadly spaced, etc. When the track gets actually laid, there's room then to add things like lineside service roads, power lines, foreground elements (the track isn't right at the edge of the layout), etc. For someone planning an HO layout, do the rough design as though it were to be done in S-Scale, and so on. <br /> <br />Just my two cents.
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