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N / Help With A First Layout?
February 09, 2011, 09:51:59 PM
Hi there, we're (me and my son) building our first N Scale layout and we could use some help. We already have some locomotives and cars from a friend of mine who was switching scales. We've had nothing but 'Thomas' floor layouts until now that he's grown out of Thomas, and gotten into "bigger trains". We got a lot of Bachmann E-Z track with the engines and cars and we tried having a floor layout with them. This worked out pretty well until my daughters (not train fans at all) came and started knocking the trains over.

After that, it was decided that we should have a table layout. The only problem is that we're having trouble making one fit in a small sized space that has what we want. It has to be two tracks (the local CSX line has two tracks and we're loosely basing it on that), I'd like it to be done with E-Z track since we already have a lot, and it needs those bigger curves (19 inch I think) since we got locomotives like the Santa Fe and N&W 4-8-4's who don't like the little curves.

Thanks if anyone has any suggestions or ideas, these newbies could use some help!