You can certainly do a lot in a small space with N scale, especially with a single piece of 2' x 4' plywood as M.C. Fujiwara demonstrated with his Mount Coffin & Columbia River Railroad.

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 typical train car. One of the few cameras that fit within that ...

World War II temporarily slowed model train production ... trains on a single track and add sound effects, lighting, and ...