I constructed my first N scale layout in a coffee table in 1976 based ... of foam board which would eventually come to form both the scenery and the track base. I built up the upper level for ...

Before you can put scenery materials onto your layout, you have to have a base ... I also installed N scale cork roadbed to form the right-of-way for the highway on the layout.

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 ...