A sturdy table is a necessity:

You should have a surface that can resist the minor bumps. You don’t need your trains to be retrofitted against a the “Big One” but they shouldn’t fall over when the mail truck rumbles by outside. One horrible moment and your trains could be in pieces tossed around the ground. What a disaster!  No, you definitely need a cool sturdy surface. You’re practiced with your hands, you could possibly construct the table yourself.

Cool Tip: Here’s a cool suggestion. If you happen to own an good ping-pong table you don’t use any more, then stop thinking of it as your ping pong table and start thinking of it as your new train table. Ping pong tables give you lots of room for any but the highest scale lay outs.  Think of how complicated you could make your HO circuit design on a table of these dimensions.  This is perhaps the easiest most cost and time efficient way of getting a great surface for your train design.

Portable tables for travel:

If you plan on lugging your N gauge toy train layout around and showing it for others, you may want to spend a little bit on a portable hobby table made exclusively for arts and crafts. There are a few different sites that specialize in designing these kinds of hobby tables that are sturdy but light weight and easily portable.

Cool suggestion #2: Use ceiling space instead of floor space.  If you’re good with your hands and pressed for space, the best way to save floor space is not to use it.   You can use pulleys to raise and lower your train whenever you would like.

Interlocking tables:

Domino tables are you best choice. These tables can be united in any configuration or layout.  What these wonderful domino tables let you to do most however is to grow your locomotive setup in any way that you would like.  Unlike other kinds of tables that force you to alter your design to fit their shapes, these tables allow you to control the borders of your circuit design. The light weight design is ideal for model train lovers.  If you want to take your model train down in the basement, you can just carry the table down to your work area.  If you want to take this over to your brother’s house to show his kids your track, it is light enough to be carried.  They are so easy to change that you might actually have difficulty keeping to one track plan.

A good toy locomotive lay out is only as good as the foundation it is constructed on.

Here is more information on N Scale Model Trains. Here is a website with a free mini-course dedicated to Model Trains.

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