I constructed my first N scale layout in a coffee table in 1976 based on the East Glasstop project railroad series that appeared in Model Railroader from December of 1970 to April of 1971. However, it ...

Over nearly 40 years I've built seven train layouts. I started out with N scale, then discovered large scale trains. I've built both indoor and outdoor large scale layouts over the years.

The N scale Alco RSD5 from Atlas is now offered with an ESU LokSound V5 sound decoder and an upgraded chassis.

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 ...