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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

Club member Michael Curtin, 76, of Fort Myers is relatively new to the hobby, too. He started building an N-scale layout in his enclosed lanai about three years ago using pre-packaged Kato-brand kits.

The Northeast Large Scale Train Show continues on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield. Admission is $12 for adults and free for children age 15 and under.