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.

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 ...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others ...

You can follow along by reading Model Railroader's January, February and March 2025 issues, with Sleppy teasing the possibility of expanding the current Colorado Plains layout in the future.

Rowland said the N-scale layout comes apart in two sections – 4×8 and 3×8 – and features four trains on two tracks. The display also has working lights, and comes with scores of trains and cars.

If you can’t wait to get a train driver’s view of your N-scale layout, then you’ll be happy to know that STL files and detailed build instructions are available on the project’s Hackaday ...

Society members recently displayed two highly detailed scale model train layouts at the National Model Railroad Association Convention held Aug. 5-12 in Kansas City, Missouri.

If you’ve always dreamt of building a miniature model railway but don’t quite have the space for one, Peter Waldraff came up with a solution by building a complete four-season N-scale layout ...

That’s not all you’ll find at the home of model-train club Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, where its 46 members have duplicated those towns as a model-train layout. “I call it 3-D art ...

Running on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Nov. 29 to Dec. 15, the show will feature more than 200 model train cars on a 40×40-ft. layout. The layout will tell the story of New Jersey ...