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Avendale, I almost agree with you, until we start talking about today's prototypical equipment. For the average guy with the average space, N scale is the best scale size. For the transition era, I'd vote HO and for narrow gauge, I'd vote S. Contemporary equipment is long; an SD90 is long, centre beam cars and auto Max's, and other goodies out there are long. In HO, those large layouts are shrunken if you want to run one SD90 with 25 longer equipment cars. The "presence" you talk about, I would agree with for much in HO. However again with the longer equipment, that "presence" difference in the HO/N scale visual impact is disappearing. For example, I was looking at the West Coast F59PHI engine hooked up to the Bombardier West Coast cars in N and you know what, they had "impact." Or get an SD90 and buy those auto max cars for a long unit train, and it has "presence." If you go by all the statitics of RR hobbyiest, I should be modelling Jasper Alberta in the spring of 1957. But to be honest with you, I love today's engines and cars and I enjoy modelling them. If I were modelling Jasper Alberta in 1957, I would model in HO; but for today's goodies, N is a better choice (for the average guy).
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