All railroads big and small
I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER SEEN a more diverse set of model railroads in an issue of GMR. HO scale (1:87.1) is the most popular scale by far, with more than two-thirds of hobbyists modeling in that scale. So it’s not surprising that most of the layout articles submitted to us are in that scale. Despite that, this year’s edition of Great Model Railroads features more layouts in other scales – N (1:160), S (1:64), O (1:48), and large scale – than in HO. If you’ve ever doubted it, this issue proves that no scale has a monopoly on great modeling. N scale is the second most popular modeling scale, and Glenn Wolfe’s Union Pacific Santiam Division, shown on page 56, shows why. This scale puts big rail yards, long main…