Thinking of 2 scales in the same general area any good ideas ?

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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My current layout, a 10’ x 10’ x 2’ wide “L” in “N” scale is on hold, because I will be moving in about 45 days. I also like the other end of the Spectrum, “O” While I’m stuck to armchair modeling I’ve been thinking of building an “O” eith under or over the “N” layout. I received a K-line little Reading diesel switcher with coal cars for Christmas. I thought I could model a little coal mine branch for the “O”. Any one done anything similar, any good ideas ?

Thanks Dave

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I haven’t done that., but go for it. Why not?

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I seriously considered using some N scale trains in a forced perspective scene on our HO scale railroad but ran out of space. [V] O to N is a big jump but you could have the N scale running thru background scenes for the illusion of distance.

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There is a plan in “48 Top Notch Track Plans” for a N scale layout with a Z scale running in the background to create an illusion of depth. It looks pretty good on paper…

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Thanks for the replies. Just a clarification. I’m not thinking of using both scales on the same layout, too big of a jump, I’m thinking of two seprate layouts but in the same basic space, stacked one over the other probably. I’ve seen some really interesting looking ON3 layouts for small mining or logging in magazines lately. and Yes I realize what I have is “O” not On3 which runs on HO track. But my little Plymouth Switcher and mine cars are small for “O”.

Thanks again. Dave