I also would like to welcome Billman to the forums, I model HO but you will find out we all sort of jump around and see what everyone is doing! On the Lionel subject, I modeled O scale Lionel for years as a kid and well into my teen years. Back then all you had was three rail and tinplate which always seemed to look like toys no matter what you did to them. Nowadays The two rail O is much , much better. You can actualy make a realistic layout and proto model to scale, but only if you have enough room!
