Dirt and N scale layouts: A locomotive model won’t run if current doesn’t pass from the rails to the pickup wheels. “Duh,” you may say, but that fact isn’t necessarily obvious ...

The main challenge here was the extremely limited space available: the track in N-scale layouts is 9 mm wide, meaning that the whole system had to fit in just 23 x 20 mm 2, the frontal area of a ...

So I returned to my first love, N scale, and I'm about 95 percent done with my layout. I love building train layouts that feature small-town U.S.A. and a rural farm area.

This N-scale layout was three years in the making, mostly because ... The layouts weren’t generally as small as this one (the smallest operating one was the size of a shoebox I think), ...