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.

(Abiola Odutola/The Brandon Sun) “The N-scale model has a ratio of 1:160, making it smaller, while the HO scale is 1:87, which is the most common scale in the world,” Stumme said on Saturday.

These model train creators and fans are members of the Long Island Garden Railway Society, formed in the late 1980s.

Dorge has set up a small G-scale train track around some trees in his small backyard near the airport. “I just want to show people you don’t need a huge yard,” he said.

Within the exhibition hall, visitors will find trains of all sizes and scales from small "Z" scale trains that fit in a briefcase to a large "G" scale train layout. There will be an all new Lego ...

The hope for the downtown setups will be a smaller scale museum, he said, with a few train layouts The club, which started in 1993, started with a small building on the grounds of a cement plant in ...