Design a toy train layout - O, S, or Standard/Wide gauge - it requires above all making one fundamental decision. Each operator must decide what sort of look he or she wants the layout to have.

Every six months, photos of O gauge trains traversing the snowy hills and quaint villages of a sprawling layout arrive at the office. What a treat! And they represent the outstanding modeling done ...

The main challenge here was the extremely limited space available: the track in N-scale layouts is ... cameras in model railroad engines before, but that was in the huge O scale.