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 N-Scale Layout

Long View of E-Shaped LayoutThe N-scale layout consists of modules created by our club members.  Scenes include a factory, a fishing pond, a railroad yard, an English village, a model of a port, the old Galveston railroad crossing, the Galveston Train Museum and yard, a town, a carnival, a sand pit, and much more.

The layout measures 32' x 46' in floor space with 716' of main line track , which is equivalent to 21.7 scale miles.  Due to the large size  of the layout, Aristocrat remote controls and Digitrax DCC controls are used to operate the trains on each of the three main lines.  Switches are operated by DCC or control boards located in different areas of the layout.

This year DCC was installed on all three lines of the N-scale layout.  We can now run either analog and DCC operations by just the flip of a switch. 

 

The N-scale layout also includes animation such as:

  • Working windmill

  • Police car

  • Helicopter

  • Gas station auto lift

  • Fishermen catching fish

  • Turning signs

  • Children's playground

  • Hobo camp

  • Welding machine effects

  • Steam donkey

  • Grandma rocking on porch

  • Major wreck on the highway

  • Oil well pumping

  • Working crane

  • Water tower

  • Barney and Baby Bop

 

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