Model Railroading 101 All About Scale For Beginners MR101

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Welcome to our very first episode of Model Railroading 101.

You may have noticed that most of our content is geared toward modelers who are already familiar with their craft to varying degrees, but almost never just starting off in the hobby. Well, if you're just getting started in modeling, or maybe you're building a layout or experimenting with DCC - then this series is for you.

In this series, we set out to tackle some of the more basic tenets of model railroading for beginners so the more common terms and concepts are not confusing. What better place to start than with scale?

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[DerkBhern]

S scale (1/64) is the scale to use if you want to incorporate Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightning, or Matchbox cars into your layout as they tend to be 1/64 scale as well.

[jerrylawrencedrums]

You can create the illusion of distance in mountain scenes by placing the z scale to the back of a layout looking across a forest maybe up on a ridge and have a z scale shay set up on a bump switch pulling lumber or coal back and forth off in the distance of a HO scale model layout.

[Boobear]

So far the best series I’ve seen to help me get started in this hobby. Quite intimidating at first if not growing up with it. So thank you very much. There’s so many different scales I’ve seen from multiple F or G ones that fit meters as opposed to 3’ railway and oo and on30 blah blah blah. Very different and hard to follow. I really appreciate you guys.

[earthlingjohn]

Way back around 1961/62 my brother and I were given a Lionel model 1611 O gauge train set (the set created in 1959 to celebrate Alaska
Statehood ).
Mother re-married in 1965 and we immediately set about to taking command of step-fathers ping-pong table to accommodate our Lionel.

Great Fun !!!
p.s. I still have that train but sadly lost my brother to cancer in 1996. I intend to post a video to my YT channel in the near future of set-up & running that train 👍

[Chuckish]

Over the years I've had HO, N and Z scales. When I was in the Canadian Military in Germany in the late 70s and early 80s Z was the way to go. HO was good, but hard to pack up and move, and the movers always destroyed at least one box trains, so N scale was the best for someone who moved every 4 years or so.

[roadskare]

Thank you for THIS REALLY helps folks figure out size/scale to how and what their spaces can accommodate !

[Theplacetobe]

New to the hobby and your 101 series is a playlist saved on my YouTube thank you for the info and not talking down to beginners that is appreciated thank you guys for your time and information

[frankstar]

Thank you fir very thorough and fun videos. I think your videos are the best for explaining the hobby. Good job!

[EmperorEdselstein]

Here are the timestamps if you want a specific gauge.
Z 3:20
N 5:15
HO 6:55
O 8:30
G 11:00

[chrislilly]

I love my N scale. My dad put a 4x8 sheet of plywood on the pool table. It had a 3 foot tall mountain with tunnels a town with train station in the middle and foothills with a river on the other end. You could do quite a bit in that area. I always found my friends HO scale too big. I do agree though, it was hard finding new stuff. Less of a problem now with internet sellers, but in the 90’s I was limited to the few shops or the once a year model train show.

Back then, there was a toy called “micro machines” which was like hot wheels, but the cars were like an inch long. Pretty close in scale to N it seemed to me.

[FlipFlopandFly]

My late father, always had Lionel Post War trains around the Christmas tree. He loved model trains especially Lionel " O Gauge and O-27". I collect and run Lionel Post War. I had HO and G scale. But I sold them and got back into collecting and running Lionel Post War Trains. Go for what you like. It all comes down to size and how big of a room you have. What gauge would be perfect for you to run. Consider your budget as well. Happy Railroading!

[matrixlee]

I hope you'd talk a bit about On30 and its relationship to HO.

[larryboysen]

I run vintage Lionel Standard Gauge "Tin plate" I'm a fan of the toy aspect of vintage pre and post war Lionel equipment. My late dad loved and worked in HO. Standard gauge is close to "G" in size. "S" started out as Gilbert's American Flyer. Lionel bought out Flyer and produces "S". Lionel has gone through several producers through the years. Williams, Fundimentions [General Mills] and MTH have produced some very fine reproductions of original Lionel "O" stock.

[tammylovescats]

I had a HO train set when I was a kid. I really enjoy watching trains. I am thinking of getting back into it again.

[labarenthus]

Im glad this video series exists. I have so many questions about model railroading and This series is all the answers

[MasterWorlock]

I'm glad I found this. Been wanting to get into model railroading, but its pretty intimidating.

[stephenfarmer]

Greetings from New Zealand, just watched your video above for the first time, very informative. I run HO and OO together very successfully - both have plenty of rolling stock and locos available - Hornby is the OO brand in the UK, while HO is available from Athearn, Bachmann etc here in NZ, from the USA - essentially just the couplers are different, but can changed to suit. I find the rolling stock in HO is more modern in style, and more detailed than the British OO...thats the great thing about model railways, you can run anything you want - as long as you are happy with the end product! Keep up the informative sessions!

[evanhizon]

Z: ero room for installing a DCC decoder
N: othing exciting ever comes out.
HO: ly crap, these models are so fragile.
O: h my god, they are expensive and made in China.
G: reat god, I have no room to run these.

[christopherorourke]

N scale started in 1967. I prefer N scale since I live in an apartment and space is limited. I have Kato track, a Kato N scale Amtrak Superliner set that I call the Coast Daylight, 3 Amtrak P42 locomotives, I also have the Southern Pacific Morning Daylight set which is pulled by the Daylight steam locomotive GS-4 number 4449 which is my excursion train. I’m adding freight cars, my diesel locomotives will be Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, BNSF, Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Western Pacific. My n scale model railroad is the Pacific West Coast. My ultimate goal is to model he entire West Coast from San Diego to Vancouver, BC, Canada.

[davidhefner]

I live in Lima, Ohio. Although now a bean town it was once a train Town. The Shay was built here. totally freaked out the other day when I was traveling under the newly reconstructed train underpass. Nothing looked real about it. I felt like I was in a electric train landscape. Although the pine trees looked real....just to perfect. The underpass itself....made from red brick and poured white cement.