O guage and S guage - together?

                                          Don William's O and S scale layout.....

Don Williams' O and S gauge layout recalls a historic Pennsylvania, Horseshoe Curve. This railroad was featured in the October 2004 issue, where you can see more photos and read the story behind it.

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Not what you asked for, but I can not resist...  3/16ths "S" scale, but of course 0 gauge.

The only challenge with modeling S and 0 on a layout is in being able to provide enough space for activity in both scales.

                                                    O/S  scale layout....

         The customer wanted a layout that he could show off his collection of O gauge and S scale trains. We built this 16' x 22' layout with 2 levels, O gauge on the lower level and the S scale on the upper level. Having the S scale on the upper level made the layout look larger as if it was off in the distance.

                              http://www.lbhmodelrailroads.com/projectos.html

Well done. It looks very good.

some have done more....Standard,O,S,and HO, with the larger trains in the front, with the smaller towards the rear to give the illusion  of distance.

I run S, 0 and 1 gauge on my multi gauge garden track:

Regards

Fred

Thanks for the pictures and ideas.    Art

I have four loops of S gauge, one of which is mounted to  a Lionel trestle set.   Then there are three loops of O gauge running on the outside of the S gauge.  Very much like Banjo Flyer up above...

While I don't have a lot of room on my around the room layout, I did make room for a loop of AM S flextrack for my S collection inside my outer O gauge loop.

I've thought of adding HO to the rear of a layout but S really makes more sense doesn't it?  Only caveat to me would be the inconsistency of having 2 and 3 rail track in close proximity. The beautiful layout above with the handsome American Flyer Freight Santa Fe avoids this to a degree by having the S track exclusively on a different level to good effect.

You could run Traditional sized Lionel O gauge items on the foreground tracks and S Scale items on S gauge tracks, the size difference would not be very noticable. 

If you operate 1/48th scale on O gauge tracks the foreground and the shrunken Flyer S gauge items on S gauge items in the background, then you would have a greater size difference. 

You can also choose true 1/48th scale only on the O gauge tracks in the foreground and true 1/64th scale only on S gauge tracks in the background about 12" apart with structures, figures, and scenery for a forced perspective effect. 

Andrew