Many years ago my father purchased a Lionel O scale train layout for me. I still have these today, but due to space limitations I have started into HO. I consider myself a beginner in the hobby as it has been at least 40 years since I was last in the hobby. I joined a club in my local area about a year ago and I’m now starting to build my own layout. Looking forward to following along and participating on the site.
Craig WELCOME! To judge from recent activity here "HO" is fast becoming a rare breed indeed! Most have gone to "N scale" but concepts & availability is same. Have you investigated DCC-EX CommandStation yet? With mostly old-style brass DC track & equipment I am new to DCC++ as well and highly recommend it. Cheers (ps: just fixed my "bi-direction headlight" not working in "DecoderPro" by resetting "CV"s back to documented "defaults")
I belong to different forums that favor different scales. My approach is to see what people are using or showing on their layouts that I might be able to use on mine. I like this forum even though it leans to N gauge but it still shows different gauge posts that help me. When I saw your comment that HO is fast becoming a rare breed I was shocked by that statement. I assume you have not looked at what is selling in the market and the percentage of model railroaders in the in the different scales. To say that that HO is becoming a rare breed is totally incorrect. Let us all enjoy whatever scale and not put down others. Thanks
Welcome to TrainBoard... HO is still by far the most popular scale. This particular venue has more posts on N Scale by quite a lot but that's not indicative of the entire hobby. There are other venues that are dominated by HO Scale discussions. I'm a "rubber gauger" myself... my primary scale is and has been N for decades, but I also have an HO Scale switching layout in my home office and a Z Scale coffee table type layout in the living room.
lol btw grrrr sore subject for me evil step-mother took my fathers circa 40's O scale steam engine and coal tender . . . Spoiler: click for bad news and made end table LAMPS out of them!
