I am 14 i knwo you all probly will ignore this thread because im a teen but for the ones that read it im stuck i currently have a O-27 gauge railroad on 4 4x8 peice og pl;y wood shaped likea U in my basement i want to convert to HO and my dad is furious my reason- HO is much smaller and less expensive and my layout would be very big witha h/o layout my O-27 gauge layout has three trainc that run on it i do not use DCC and do nto play to use DCC i was planning to run itleast 4-5 trains on my layout- nuthing major- and i allready have a few h/o scale trains around my christmas tree i need help on convincing my father to let me switch i want to sell my O-27 but he wont let me becuase he says it valuable becuase its all linel stuff and i have alot tied into it so i was going to pack it up and save it. I would also like to knwo the website to athearn and know what u guys thjink the best h/o maker is i curerently have all bachmann stuff and thats the kind of track i was planning to lyout on this set. One last thing LOL i would like track plans if anybodfy got sum i have a U shaped board on 4x8 and the top and left side are about 5 inches lower that the right thankyou by by