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Shays and their ilk are far too delicate to be N-scale models; not that it can't technically be done, but assuming that one was produced, you wouldn't be able to really appreciate all of its clunking gears and slow speed. Personally, I think HO is too small a scale for shay modelling; I've seen logging operations in this scale, and have been frankly underwhelmed with the overall effect of seeing the lumbering shay trundle by. When you model a shay, you want to be focused in on that tiny engine, you want to be filled with the sense of it. That feeling only starts to happen at O-scale, I feel. What would be best would be to take it outdoors, into a garden railroad setting, in and amongst real 1:1 scale trees and dappled lighting coming through the leaves, ballast really crunching under the ties as the weight compresses it...
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