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I have been modelling for nearly 40 years, 30 of those in O scale British and have just changed to On30 thanks to some help from Bachmann. The British stock has just been packed away for another day. <br />Over here in England we have small houses with no basements but it is possible to model in O scale and run a layout either indoors or outside. Of course British Locos and stock are shorter than American so more can be fitted in the smaller space. The trend here is for branch lines (short lines) operated by tank engines and passenger stock of a maximum scale length of 57ft. Having said this, my friend operates a modern image American O scale layout in a space of approx 15ft X 10ft roof space. <br />I have built indoor layouts and a garden layout in O scale and we have no ready to run so everything either has to be built from kits or scratch so a railroad however small or large require a considerable amount of expense and effort. Would I choose this scale if I had to start all over again, well the answer would be yes just because of the visual and noise effects from seeing a train run in this scale is far superior to the smaller scales.
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