Unless you go the customized route for decals, you can purchase N scale decals to help decal your rolling stock, bridges, buildings, or locomotives. I usually find my N scale decals at train shows. There is always someone clearing out their N scale decals of what they have left or will never use.

Scratch building is defined in Wikipedia as “The process of building a scale model "from scratch", ie. from raw materials, rather than building it from [ ... ]

Hopper Weathering Clinic II
By Bill Mock
December 2009

So here's how those BN Hoppers turned out after the surface rust dried. Not bad. I'll [ ... ]

or why did I decide on Z-Scale model railroad.   

    I had been dabbling in N Gauge off and on since 1974, when I gave [ ... ]