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My very first N-scale train set (when I was in elementary school; I saved up the $47 to buy it for myself, what a thrill!) was the Jupiter-powered Civil War Train Set by Bachmann. <br /> <br />If you're serious about the era, I would recommend going to a larger scale, since the cars and engines are so small and thus prone to failure when trackwork is not absolutely perfect. You could use Bachmann's or Kato's segmental track (with the molded-in ballast) to avoid problems, but then you'd have modern-looking track and roadbed. The rails back then were much lighter, and there simply isn't any N-scale track that looks right for them. <br /> <br />If you are sure about N-scale, then take steps to maximize the fact that you are modeling tiny trains in a tiny scale. You might choose to emphasize how the transcontinental railroad was so dwarfed by the terrain it traversed, giving over large portions of layout space to mountains and prairies, with long single track mainlines, stretched across a vast panorama of wild west. Keeping the number of switches to a minimum and using long stretches of flextrack can help prevent track problems. You can get code 55 flextrack, which has a lower profile and thus looks better than "normal" N-scale track.
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