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first off [#welcome]. heres my take on the scales. HO scale is the most popular, it has the widest selection of products available and is generally the cheapest. There are several manufacturers, including Broadway Limited Imports, referred to as BLI that make great steam engines with light, smoke, and sound that is unbelievable. Of the three scales you will be able to do the most with HO. O scale is roughly twice the size of HO. At one time it was the most popular scale but those days are long gone. O scale will be significantly more expensive than HO and you will not be able to fit near as much track in a given space. There are also O scale locomotives with the smoke. lights, and sound but they tend to be less realistic looking than HO O27 is narrow guage O scale trains that run on HO scale tracks. There is not a very wide selection for this scale so you would be building many things from scratch and what you do find to buy would be very expensive. If it were me i would go HO. However, the desicion is yours. Go to some local hobby shops and look around. see what you like. Happy railroading![:D]
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