Haddocksrock Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 I am contemplating changing scales from 00 to N gauge. My only experience with N gauge was in the 1990's with British made Graham Farish. I found the diesel outline models performed well but the steam outline models were pretty hopeless! They either emulated Mallard in speed with no slower speeds possible or stuttered and stopped over any points. The layout I am considering is a large terminus which means lots of points (electro-frog) and plenty of slow moving trains and shunting. My query is, before I commit to offloading all my 00, are the current Bachmann GF and Dapol N gauge steam outline locos capable of performing at that level on that sort of layout? Or are they more suited to continuous run layouts? Any help or comments welcome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted July 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2016 Some are better than others, however it is the track laying that makes the real difference. Poor track will give poor performance. There older Dapol models do have a reputation of being fast or stopped, however this has not been my experience. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 Take a read of the Farish and Dapol forums in the products section if you have not done so already for a 'user sampling'. I have only limited experience via a friend of some of the Farish 'Blue Riband' N gauge steam models. Safe to say these are day over night improvements over the Poole GF product designs; similar to the upgrade OO steam got from 1999, with the move to mechanism designs developed and proven on HO product. As posted above, you do need to 'do your bit' in high grade tracklaying to fully exploit the performance potential. But if you can make current OO run to the desired performance standard, you should be able to obtain the same from current N. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wherry Lines Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Although it is always good to find out the experiences of others, you need to bare in mind that people are more vocal when something doesn't work as well as they expect, rather than when it does work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted July 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2016 I have a 2-6-4 GF and it performs beautifully on dc from a crawl through electro-frogs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Apart from one or two locos (Dapol 45xx and an M7) all my n gauge locos perform very well over points. Suprisingly it was Dapols coaches that caught me unawares shorting over points due to back issues Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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