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My favorite idea is The ACME (tm) Corporation, Supplying Cartoon Mayhem for 75 years! Literally Anything could be delivered there. Wood fpr shipping crates, chemicals of all types, coal, oil, even rocket fuel. Masses of steel for giany magnets, generators, ball bearings, etc

Thats a great kid's track. As for the Atlas turnouts and Digitrax, I don't know (I still use DC instead of DCC), but ask on the DCC forum. They should be able to tell you

Kids always seem to like figure 8s, tunnels, and muliple levels, sidings are not of much interest. they want to watch the trains go, preferably at top speed! good sites to look at for HO 4x8: www.thortrains.com Gateway Central has 7 fairly simple layouts in 4x6 and 4x8...

the trackplan looks quite nice. However, reaching the center areas of a 6'x12 layout will be problematical. Most people only have a reach of 25-30 inches. Most of the center of your layout will be unreachable to fix derailings or add scenery. This will lead to you looking like this...

Pacific Coastliner

11" radius is fine for just about any N-scale Steam out there. I'm running (on the 2.5x4.5) a fairly large steam loco (4-8-2) with no problem on 9.75" radius. all turnouts at Atlas #4 (which has a 19" radius curve) again, anything just about *should* handle it. The only thing I think...

Heres something I worked out this is a 4x6 Nscale track. Its got 8 industries (9 if you use the yard lead as another industry instead of a yard lead). You have a turntable with room for 5 engines, 3 runaround tracks, switchback sidings, and a long. non-oval mainline run (something like 3/4 of...

ok. For some reason I was thinking you had 30"x40", don't ask why. So you have, really, 4'x6' for an N-scale layout. That's actually pretty BIG for N. (Its similar to having 8'x12' for HO) let me look through someof my plans (I've tended to the 2x4 and Door size layouts). For...

Have you looking at the 'small N-scale layouts' at Thortrains (http://www.thortrains.com)? He has a wide variety of layouts from point to point to spaghetti junctions. one nice 2x4 (see below), has a small yard and plenty of switching, plus an oval to make things run If you can go...

Well, for the moment anyway, I'm hopping about between classes.

removable Modular .....

The only important rule I'll add: Many Model Railroad Yards are TOO BIG! This even applies to the professionally-designed plans you see in Model Railroader magazine. unless you plan to fill a yard as basically 'visible storage' for your unused rolling stock and locomotives, you don't need...

I'm thinking of eventually having an OO9 hillclimbing model of the Battasia Loop of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railroad In India(!), which is pretty darn obscure for someone living in the States. Note that OO9's actual scale is off by one real world millimeter for the DHR. (the 2-foot gauge would...

Pitch as I trace it, it works fine to me. All the sites (the yard, the mine, and the power plant) are trailing spurs for a clockwise rotation, making it an easy operation just like the real railroads want. just picture a train starting from the yard area and watch it go

Eye Level While I'll agree about Eye level, I'm a lazy SOB, and so I *sit down* while playing trains. a table at the usual 30-40" height will let you sit at it just fine.

Kato's coupers are compatable with Microtrains, but not the rapidos a lot of cars come with. the Kato coupler won't work with uncoupler magnets, but otherwise, its identical to the MTs

Cylinders Smokestacks

on Code 55 vs code 80. Nothing made in the last oh, 10 years, will have any problems with Code 55. only older stuff has a problem with it

Small yard the yard is intentionally small. Its part of the game/puzzle that makes the whole thing work. the yard tracks hold 5, 3, and 3 cars, the yard lead holds an engine and 3 cars. you start with the yard having 8 cars in it. Randomly pick 5 cars (I use an 8-sided Die, rolled 5...

oh, wait. you wanted double track! heres the 2x6 as a double track: