I thought it was interesting that in the local garden railway club I belong to all but one person has come from N scale.
Most other modellers find it strange that you would go from the smallest to the biggest, but there is a lot of us that have done it.
So is is common for other G scale people worldwide, or is there something in the water here that made us do it?
Please vote so I can find out if I am normal or not[:D].
Glen.
HOn30 — HO scale trains on N gauge track. Something me and OLD DAD have in common.
The layout was the Furnace Creek, Ketchum and Union Pacific, or the FCK UP…but the first incarnation (18x24) got blown up in the Northridge earthquake, the second attempt (24 x 48) got Nuked when we were living in a very small bungalow and I had to sacrifice it for living space…I still have almost all the rolling stock and buildings and used them to build a pizza style micro-layout .
I started in HO, Well I got my first lionel when I was three months old. Then on to N scale. Well what is it about G scale? I really like the large size. More of a hands on kinda thing. and more common things available. Thanks - Greg
I really cannot see how anyone could be bothered with all that other small and pointless stuff, just for kids and other people.
Rgds Ian
I began in N scale, where I marveled at the detail of some of the pieces and structures. I always wanted to try “out door” railways and, thus, I expect an even greater level of detail in Large Scale.
Played around for years with HO and On30 but never seriously. Fell in love with 1:24 scale about 20 years ago (when was GR first published?) and never looked back. But I am considering taking a swing at 7/8" scale one day along with my friend OLD DAD.
Walt
Well I started with my Lionel “O” then went to HO, left for a while then came back with “S” and now “G”. I still own O,S, and HO, and working on aquiring more G. Thought about a loop around my office or rather 4 loops to be able tor run all 4 smallest in the front to largest in the back and elevate them as well slightly for easier viewing.
I too started with N scale. I still have a N scale layout I want to do for an indoor setup. The more I look at these garden trains I like then the size, the fact that they really do operate outside, and after I’m done I should have a nice place to go relax and watch a train or two go by.
Take care,
Jack
It’s the size. I enjoyed N and I still have it all boxed away but I got to the point where I couldn’t see what I was doing without magnifiers. HO would have been fine but the room indoors wasn’t big enough, so there was only one place left. Now I have a permanently empty wallet!!
Cheers,
Kim
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Hi,
I first modeled HO because it´s the most common scale in europe. 4 or 5 years ago I saw a catalogue from LGB and was fascinated by that “big, heavy” models. After more than one year this thought in my mind I started selling all my HO-equiment via ebay…and was satisfied by the really high turnover (more than the overall-purchase price). So I had enough budget to start with G-scale.
Meanwhile I have 4 locos, 10 cars, 3 switches and appx. 30 meters of track.
And on the other hand there is another issue, which is still fascinating me: to be able to add sound and other features to the locos without that headache about space which I had with HO-scale.
with best regards
hobbyfossi201
I am amazed by the small scales : Ho, N and Z, but I find them way too finicky for my “all thumbs” hands. I run “O” in the garage and “G” out doors…
I had a very small HOn30 layout until 1984, when my 73-year-old mother bought an LGB starter set. I’ve been in G scale ever since! And the trains remind me of her…
SandyR
I’m a member of a local HO scale club that has a 20 x 40 foot layout.
I like others was into HO plus N but my eyes and fingers have seen the ravages of time so G gauge was the only thing I could live with and I never looked back.
Cheers,
I dabbled in HO for a while but lost interest for a number of reasons. It seemed more of a purchasing passtime than a modelling one. Operations, as generally done in HO were more like a job than an amusement. Also, the low radiator pipes in the basement of my 1920’s house took a toll on my head ( I’m six foot two).
When I retired I decided to resume model rail roading and outdoors was the only place to go. Garden railroading is fantastic. I’m the only kid on theblock with a seventy ton diesel and a Baldwin-Westinghouse electric locomotive. Even though they aren’t great examples of the model makers art my grandchildren and the neighborhood kids enjoy running them and on a nice summer day, when they are viewed from the patio without glasses and a tall drink, they look just fine.
Bob
“enjoy running them and on a nice summer day, when they are viewed from the patio without glasses and a tall drink, they look just fine.”
Bob, Is there any other way to run them?
Walt
This is a problem.
You can only vote once.
Who thinks up these polls, anyway?
I started in 3-rail “0”, moved 10 years later to Half-Zero, moved back to 3-rail, dabbled for a few weeks in “N”, built my big 3-rail layout in 3 different houses, entered 2-rail "0’ as a sideline, then move to Large Scale first as a sideline, then as primary.
So, you can’t “vote” for every scale you were in.
Dumb.
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