Waiting during switching

[rrinker]

You know, iun the middle of the first reply, you hit on the 'problem' of scaling time. Why does the couple of seconds it takes to grab a sip of coffee seem to be enough time? Well, think about it. If it would take you 5 minutes in real life to walk the length of the train, in HO that train is 1/87th the size of the real train. 5 minutes in real time is 300 seconds. It would make sense that if the train is 1/87th the length of the real thing, it would take 1/87th of the time - a bit over 3 seconds! Using a fast clock at 6:1, to wait that 'scale' 5 minutes would be 50 actual seconds - and that seems too long. Because it is.

--Randy