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Your age plays a big part in the trains you like. Very young youngsters may be fascinated by electric trains, but they positively won’t be able to put a set together and run it. A lot of people think that children shouldn’t be given electric trains until they are nine years old or older. In my opinion think six is a good age to go from toy trains and battery operated trains to real electric trains.

I recommend GeoTrax to a lot of people with young children since the curves are designed so that no matter how a child assembles them the track pieces will always assemble correctly. It’s the only product I’ve seen that had this capability. With GeoTrax children can easily learn about laying out the tracks without the frustration of having to redo sections of it because the pieces don’t fit right.

Electric Train Scales

When choosing a scale, its significant to remember, that the bigger the number in the size the smaller the model will be. For example, HO is 1:87.1, or about half the size of O gauge at 1:48.

If referring to a narrow gauge railroad, it’s normal to see n3 or in the case of O scale there’s “n3″, “n2″ & “n30″ The “N” refers to narrow, and the trailing number refers to the gauge (or width)

The more popular scales are HO, N & O common scales have a bigger commercial base, thus making it slightly easier to find.

Space becomes a large concern when picking a scale. It’s important to pick a scale that will work well in the area you have. Don’t choose a O scale if you only have two square feet of space.

You can find lots of layout plans online Model railroaders’ home pages and model electric train manufacturers websites are good places to look. If your looking to buy a model electric train, parts and supplies have a look at http://electrictrain.org/.