I have run through the alphabet. As a child I had American Flyer S guage trains. Then as a teenager I switched to N-scale because we didn't have the space in our family home for a layout much larger than 4 X 8, and N seemed to offer more possibilities than HO within those limitations. Over the years I have built 5 or 6 different layouts in N, as I moved from place to place. I still have an operating N scale layout today.
Additionally, for about 10 years I also dabbled in G. Mainly under the tree at Christmas, while the rest of the year the engines and cars sat on display shelves in the rec room. Last year I decided to get rid of all my large scale equipment. I finally came to realize that conditions in eastern Iowa aren't really favorable for building an outdoor railroad. Right now I have 2 sets of Bachman On30; one passenger, one freight, that run around the Christmas tree. I am thinking of building a shelf layout in On30, just to have a place to run the equipment during the rest of the year.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
1:80 scale, which is rather closer to OO than to HO. As far as I know, it is used almost exclusively to model Japanese prototype, which makes it very common in Japan and very uncommon elsewhere.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
G, O Scale Trolley under Catenary, S, HO, N.
G, O and HO have operating layouts at this time between my Father's house and mine.
S is boxed and N-scale is loco/rolling stock residue from a former layout when I was active Duty Army.