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), ...