I'm returning to the hobby after a VERY long absence. Originally, I had dabbled in HOn3, but never had sufficient space for much of anything other than dioramas. N Scale makes a lot of sense for many reasons, especially space-efficiency and operating realism. As my user name indicates, I have a long standing interest in Colorado railroads. I would love to do some work in narrow gauge, particularly in regards to being able to capture the essence of the areas that the D&RGW, or RGS operated in. But, when talking about this to a LHS specializing in model railroading, the owner sort of snorted and asked me if I wanted to RUN my trains, or to just model them. He then went on to try to push me towards considering some sort of wall mount shelf HO system which would run around the room available in my basement. This kind of concerns me. I don't know if he's just trying to push his prejudice in regards to his chosen scale, or whether there may be some operating and reliability issues regarding Nn3. I've done some searches for Nn3 on this forum, the Atlas forum, and the Model Railroading forum, but really haven't found much to speak of. Are there any narrow gauge operators here? I would be interested in some honest feedback on what sort of drawbacks there are regarding modeling and operating Nn3.
Thanks,
riograndefan
Thanks,
riograndefan