Hi All,
I'm new to this forum, but have been very impressed with what I've read. Maybe you can help me.
I'm at the planning stages and I'm hoping to find out which way the general trends in large scale are now and are likely to be going in the very near future. I want to model a standard gauge railroad from the East coast of the the US in the late 1800's with a reasonable level of fidelity* and at other times just have fun with other people coming over and run on the railroad without looking completely foolish. I understand the various scales and gauges. I'M WONDERING WHICH SCALE AND GAUGE IS MOST POPULAR? (measured by quantity of equipment sold, or number of customers)(I'm guessing that will translate into higher numbers of people who like to RUN large scale trains.)
* "fidelity" - I'm not up to rivet counting. but do have a well documented eastern US prototype I'd like to model. I'm guessing that I'll have to do a far amount of scratch building and kit-bashing any way I go.
PS If it matters (like it once did with the Beta versus VHS battle) I'm near the East coast of the US.
I'm new to this forum, but have been very impressed with what I've read. Maybe you can help me.
I'm at the planning stages and I'm hoping to find out which way the general trends in large scale are now and are likely to be going in the very near future. I want to model a standard gauge railroad from the East coast of the the US in the late 1800's with a reasonable level of fidelity* and at other times just have fun with other people coming over and run on the railroad without looking completely foolish. I understand the various scales and gauges. I'M WONDERING WHICH SCALE AND GAUGE IS MOST POPULAR? (measured by quantity of equipment sold, or number of customers)(I'm guessing that will translate into higher numbers of people who like to RUN large scale trains.)
* "fidelity" - I'm not up to rivet counting. but do have a well documented eastern US prototype I'd like to model. I'm guessing that I'll have to do a far amount of scratch building and kit-bashing any way I go.
PS If it matters (like it once did with the Beta versus VHS battle) I'm near the East coast of the US.