Yes, but both turnback blobs grow to 58 inched not 60. Would work but tight. I was working with his general plan but your G shape is also good.
The track plan could make a very pleasing HOn3 layout.
I switched scales over 25 years ago after accumulating a massive collection of N scale equipment. I just had to.
-Kevin
Squeezing an HO scale layout into the same dimensions as an N scale one and trying to keep its character won´t work at all. It´s like forcing a 4" peg into a 2" hole! Aside from the curves being way too tight, there is still the issue of buildings, which require nearly 4 times as much real estate on the layout.
I’m an old N scale modeler, more than 45 years with N scale
You can say N scale is around the half scale of HO, in aritmetics this is right.
In reality no, we are far of this concept.
When building a layout for sure not, they are a lot of difference and factors which are exclusive to each scale and they can’t be extrapoled from one scale to the other
Some say if you have the place jump to Ho and not N scale; there are no real good arguments about that, just a personnal feeling; I will not open the debate for pro and cons of each scale, its a never ending thread.
Today N scale run like a charm, sometimes better than HO counterparts and in N scale place allow you to model train without the need of too much track doubling each other; this is far more realistic this is an after fact about N scale.
If you start from an HO plan ( which I have used in parts for my own layout) use first the surface the HO layout will use; one first trouble you must seen is the depht of the scene, they are big for N scale and like HO I suggest to not have track further than 2’ from the edge as a maximum.
For the two scales, aisle need to be the same and big enough to assure good access for two people, on this aspect no change from HO or N scale
A 1.5 to 2’ depht scene in N scale is huge enough to have track and good looking scenery, so you need to remodel the Ho plan with this in mind, but 2’ depht look ok also in HO, many layout hav’nt such depht for scene, this is just theorical
Again, we see we are out the idea of N scale is around 1/2 HO scale
Radius are an important design feature for a layout in both scale, many have already speak about it in this thread.
The biggest radius, the best in both scale, but space restrict the radius, it’s an evidence, but you need to apply a rule design for a minimum radius use; in N scale 18" seems the minimum, but starting from a HO plan you hav
Arithmetics is the way to look at HO v N
N is Half the Length, a Quarter the Area and an Eighth the Volume - of HO
Of these, it is the Area that is the most important.
Too ‘last century’. You should go to µ gauge instead.
Here is a picture of the setup that models the Pennsy Middle and Pittsburgh Divisions in a 4’ by 4’ modular layout. Screens to the left provide dispatching information and a view of the operations; the computer is currently ‘filming’ switching operations outside Altoona station on August 3rd, 1954.
Special software overlay allows the visible controller to do throttle and braking (dynamic is emulated as well as air, via a function button) as well as reverse, horn/bell, and ‘momentum’ via the buttons)