I haven't had a layout since 2007 when I moved from my apartment to my house. Sounds backwards huh? Well no since my fiancée moved in. I had a HO scale 4'x8' layout, nothing special. I do have quite a bit of rolling stock and locos - no DCC.
The problem is lack of room. I have a 3 bedroom house, one bedroom is mine, one is hers, and the other I took over for my office. I'm an civil engineer and I play guitar so the bedroom has books shelves, a used library file cabinet from the university, amps, and a big desk. So I've taken up my share of real estate in the house.
I've seen some n scale layouts and I'm impressed. I still like the size of the HO scale. I'm going to be 42 this month and my near side eyesight is already going, so working with details on the smaller scale will be even more difficult. My thinking is if I did start a N Scale layout I would pretty much buy the ready to roll and assembled structures.
In this case size matters and the smaller the better. I'm just not sure if I want to start over with investing in a different scale. I know if I don't go n scale I won't have a layout until I get a big house or someone moves out
If I do go N scale, I'd only buy a few engines (yeah right huh?) and go DCC.
Any words of wisdom?
Jeff
The problem is lack of room. I have a 3 bedroom house, one bedroom is mine, one is hers, and the other I took over for my office. I'm an civil engineer and I play guitar so the bedroom has books shelves, a used library file cabinet from the university, amps, and a big desk. So I've taken up my share of real estate in the house.
I've seen some n scale layouts and I'm impressed. I still like the size of the HO scale. I'm going to be 42 this month and my near side eyesight is already going, so working with details on the smaller scale will be even more difficult. My thinking is if I did start a N Scale layout I would pretty much buy the ready to roll and assembled structures.
In this case size matters and the smaller the better. I'm just not sure if I want to start over with investing in a different scale. I know if I don't go n scale I won't have a layout until I get a big house or someone moves out
If I do go N scale, I'd only buy a few engines (yeah right huh?) and go DCC.
Any words of wisdom?
Jeff