Always a little hungry

My brain must always be hungry since the food for thought is often eBay. Now I find myself in narrow gauge with nearly all possible popular scales. At some point I always go back to On30 as it is smaller, way smaller, than my garden trains and big enough to build rolling stock and structures with detail I enjoy over Nn3, HOn3, or Sn3 (although Sn3 seems to taste pretty good lately). 

Try a structure in N scale. Get a few cars and an engine to set up and see if you like this scale. They are too small for me to feel comfortable switching and often hard (again, just me) to get these little buggers on the track. Now, mind you, Nn3 uses Z gauge track spacing so I may just be a glutton [for punishment]. HOn3 is similar width to N scale and I like the engine kits so far. Sn3 engines seem out of my price range anyway. 

Food for thought.

?

Don't know, I'll have to chew on it.

Story of my life!

Story of my life!

I have had a few US outline N

I have had a few US outline N Scale layouts before. ( This will give you a feeling for the past) I have also had UK OO, UK OO9 (NG). The trouble is that I have a reputation for getting trains running and just when it gets interesting, tearing it all down and starting again!

I would have to use my HO stock to fund a move to NG but I would be able to have longer trains and run them round and round rather than along 20 feet of track and stop!

I will give it some more thought.

Think inside out

There are other ways for getting long trains other than by changing to a smaller scale.  Consider, for example, operating inside of a helix (i.e., "nolix").   9' x 9' can provide enough room for a nicely sized HO layout by thinking inside out.   Several of my published layout designs have used this concept.

Problem solved here

Whenever such a feeling comes over me I can just crank the controller on another scale until the feeling goes away, then back to work on the main HO layout.

There are eleven scales available here: 7.5" gauge; G-gauge; O-gauge; S-scale; OO-scale; HO-scale; TT-scale; N-scale; Z-scale; T-gauge; and Nano (1:1,000).  These two layouts are for the grandkids and for young operators at open houses and train shows.  (Local club is having a public layout tour this weekend so lots of action)  The two Lionel trains on the separate layout use factory controls.  The OO and HO share the same track so consequently an Arduino powered DCC++ Base Station with Raspberry Pi/JMRI/Engine Driver handle the controlling.  The other scales are DC controlled by an Arduino with Ardumoto motor shield.  The 7.5" just got wheels and link rods this week and that motor is not yet wired.

Come to the Dark Side...

We have cookies... and you can eat sixty-four times as many of them!

(... give or take a few crumbs...)

Dave, You missed...

...T scale 1:450!

@ Graeme

It's there, listed between Z and Nano.  It's actually called T-gauge and if you look closely you can see the BR125 on the next to the top track.  Click on the pic for a bigger version.

Regards,