This is a rialorad that was originally by my house though was turned into a bike path known as the Prarie Path (see image below)

Here is a map of the old railroad

Hello my name is Angela and I am new to train layout building I am trying to build a portable layout the size that i would to make is a 30"x 48" portable trolley "N" scale trolley. Im looking for help any help would be appreciated.

Since I was a kid camping and hiking in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California I would always survey the terrain as we drove and hiked.  Each curve and grade an enticing challenge for steel wheels on steel rails.  I'd imagined a route a railroad might have used to open up the vast interior of the high Sierra.  Without a map, it's hard to imagine just how much open space there really is up there:  Alpine meadows that are miles long and miles wide, saddles, valleys, canyons and of course snow-capped peaks.

I'm building a layout with a lower level of staging that feeds an upper level of 2-track main line. The staging level is almost a dogbone, but one end terminates in a "balloon" reversing loop - see the area labeled with XX and W0. Eventually the power will be DCC, but I need to have the choice of DC to run locos that haven't yet been converted.