Why Did You Choose to Model N Gauge?.

[port perran]

Hi all, I'm new, not even bought anything yet still in the planning stage.

Mostly for space reason, I was considering N or Z or even T. But in UK I can't ignore the lack of Z or the singular T source.

Also deeper in my research I decided I like the shunting operations like Inglenook puzzle more than accurate depiction of prototype, that settled me on N, just the sheer amount of resources plus I live within 10 minutes drive of Rails of Sheffield.

Good luck with your build.
Please share photographs with us as you progress.

[Snowwolflair]

Why

56 years ago my father bought me a Lima class 86 for Christmas and it has been down hill ever since

[Newportnobby]

Why

56 years ago my father bought me a Lima class 86 for Christmas and it has been down hill ever since

Then stop living at the top of a hill

[EtchedPixels]

I had OO as a kid but when it came many years later to a little project with someone about computer control of model trains I only had some ikea shelves to put it on so at 50cm wide that really meant N for running stuff in circles and trying to get a computer to control with an H bridge (this is a long time ago....). So I ended up with a Farish large logo 50 and some coaches, and then I got back into model railways and it expanded a lot. I still like building Ikeabahn designs (ones that fit on one or two Ivar 83cm x 50cm shelves) as it's a great way to keep layouts mixed in with storage and also to store them as you can stack them as shelves in the units.


I did have a little OO shelf layout as well for a while but I sold it and concentrated on N.

TT was always my favourite size but apart from some old TT my grandfather had it was a nonexistent scale when it mattered and I'm not switching at this point.

I'd also always fancied a go at N having seen some of the N stuff in books in particular the kit built 03, which I eventually managed to end up with.