Gosh N is getting smaller with age

**LotoQuestions** · 08-24-2012, 10:26 PM

Well so much for my second foray into N scale.

Purchased a Spectrun Dash 8-40C which comes with Rapido couplers.

Well I can barely see enough to tell that it is a MINIATURE phillips screw holding them on.

Scared to see the space available for the decoder in this DCC ready unit.

Guess layout building is still a nogo. Gosh this is small.

take care ,,, ken

**tootnkumin** · 08-24-2012, 11:22 PM

I agree that things get smaller with age, used to be cold water that did it, now..........

**railfan** · 08-25-2012, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by LotoQuestions

Well so much for my second foray into N scale.

Purchased a Spectrun Dash 8-40C which comes with Rapido couplers.

Well I can barely see enough to tell that it is a MINIATURE phillips screw holding them on.

Scared to see the space available for the decoder in this DCC ready unit.

Guess layout building is still a nogo. Gosh this is small.

take care ,,, ken

Ken, Try to find a hobby shop or friend with Z scale items to compare your N scale stuff with.....then N will seem bigger. That's what I do sometimes. LOL!

Mike

**railfan** · 08-25-2012, 02:56 AM

Yes......rapido couplers are a bummer.....I work overtime to avoid getting those. I will try to cheer you up and encourage you because N scale is fun if you can eventually get your layout going and things working. Hang in there Ken!

Get a magnifying glass at craft store for a dollar!

Mike

**merenwenrago** · 08-25-2012, 04:13 AM

Only 26 and find HO engines hard to work with let alone N

**bnsf971** · 08-25-2012, 05:29 AM

Ken, if you think the couplers are fun, wait until you have to hard wire that decoder in. Unless something has radically changed in the last couple of years, nobody makes a specific decoder for it.
I seem to remember that locomotive needing a MT 2004 coupler.

**montanan** · 08-30-2012, 07:33 AM

Years ago I had a fairly large N scale layout and due to the poor quality of the locomotives in the mid 70's, I sold everything and changed to HO scale. Now when I look at N scale, I wonder if it isn't Z scale. 30 plus years does something to your eyeballs, and it isn't good.

**railfan** · 08-30-2012, 08:34 AM

Space is curved. If you go out in space far enough.....you eventually arrive back where you started. Einstein knew this. This is why N scale is the perfect size!

Mike