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The sensor was small enough for an N-gauge train, which translates to 1:148 scale or about 9mm from rail to rail. His idea was to build a tiny control board that could fit inside the locomotive ...

You can certainly do a lot in a small space with N scale, especially with a single piece of 2' x 4' plywood as M.C. Fujiwara demonstrated with his Mount Coffin & Columbia River Railroad.

This is not your grandfather’s electric train set. “In the old days, you had a dial,” said Steve Riegel, who oversaw the ...

To me, it's the greatest hobby there is, because you can learn all kinds of things, construction, carpentry, artistic, you know, electronics, anything in your imagination you want to do ...

The whole thing is just 5.5″ x 12″. This N-scale layout was three years in the making, mostly because [Peter] was waiting for just the right little powered chassis to come along.

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Scale, which tells you the ratio of your model train compared with a real one. An O scale model train is 1:48, so 1 inch on the model equals 48 inches on a real train.