But [Chris Plumley]’s complete N-gauge model railroad in a coffee table takes the concept to a new and tiny level. The superlatives to describe this layout are many and begin with the coffee ...

The livingroom coffee table has long been a favorite realm of the model railroad. But what to do when you actually want to have coffee? [Peter Waldraff] has come up with a most eloquent answer to ...

Why build such a mammoth model-train set? “I don’t know what to ... nights to set up a Lionel set around the living-room coffee table. He could understand Hambling’s fascination with them.

We’ve covered model railroads small enough to be hidden away inside coffee tables and behind unassuming ... the comfort of a lifesize mockup of a train car—but nothing else on Earth comes ...