Next Project Dilemma: Talk Me Through It

[scottmitchell74]

Do you want:

- a range of prototypical models of something outside of Swiss narrow gauge
- long trains and complex operations
- finescale, high-fidelty models

If so then G probably isn't for you. They are wonderful models, but it's just totally different to N (or OO or even O).

But frankly you could build a decent N gauge layout, with stock, for the cost of a single LGB loco and coaches, so it's hard to imagine it's genuinely a choice between the two.

I'm in the States. I envision a long, single asymmetric loop. I'm a "roundy-round" guy. My current N Scale is "roundy-round." I just love to hear the sound of the trains going by.

My wife would be involved with (continued) landscaping, incorporating her gardening into what I lay down.

We live in a dry W.Texas environment and I imagine running American diesel.

 

[Bob G]

We live in a dry W.Texas environment and I imagine running American diesel.

 

You want to see what @Chris Morris has done. He has built two exhibition level N Gauge models (Little Aller Junction and Dawlish Warren) and has a G scale garden layout running US Diesels.

He does both.

Bob

[njee20]

I'm in the States. I envision a long, single asymmetric loop. I'm a "roundy-round" guy. My current N Scale is "roundy-round." I just love to hear the sound of the trains going by.

My wife would be involved with (continued) landscaping, incorporating her gardening into what I lay down.

We live in a dry W.Texas environment and I imagine running American diesel.

 

I stand by my previous point. You get an Aristocraft Dash 9 and a dozen wagons. It costs you $3000. It's gloriously novel. You sit with a beer and watch it trundle around the garden. That's wonderful. It's hardly Cajon Pass though.

[Bealman]

A G scale Cajon Pass in the garden! Now there's a thought!