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I'd stick with HO - you can fit sound units, smoke generators etc, and you can run HO in the garden - it just takes a little more work in the preparation stage. There are growing numbers of people building OO scale (same track gauge as HO, but 4mm to the foot scale rather than 3.5mm, for very old and complicated reasons!) model railways in their gardens here in the UK. These seem to be very successful, as long as you design the trackbed to avoid it picking up dust, dirt, leaves etc - most of the better-looking lines I have seen have a slightly raised trackbed - between 6in/1ft higher than the surrounding terrain, this stops dust and dirt from falling onto the lines. You can then run full scale-length trains - the whole train costing about the same as a decent O or G Scale loco!
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