O ver 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.

Roanoke’s railroad “Glory Days” may be well in the past. But one aspect of the railroad community is alive and well.

Andrew Brusgard, right, member, and Anthony Holland operate the O scale model train layout with various knobs and switches during an annual Holiday Model Railroad Exhibit by New York Society of ...

O-gauge refers to the scale of the layout, which is 1:48. Hunterdon County's Northlandz , which claims to be the largest model layout in the world, is HO, is about half of O-scale, at 1:87.

For instance, if the height of a door 🚪 on a building is the width of my thumbnail, it is N scale, twice that is HO scale, and twice that is O scale. People, autos, and animals are scaled ...

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 ...