Road/street and sidewalk dimensions for N Scale

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Hi,

As I begin to plan out were to put things on my layout, I wanted to know how wide Roads/streets and sidewalks should be for N scale.

Thanks

Andy

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A “standard” travel lane is 12 feet wide. A “standard” parking lane 8 feet wide. In the real world there is a lot of varity. (9 foot lanes ar generally the minimum with striped) 10 foot lanes are a good compromize lane width. In N scale 10 foot is 3/4 inch. Side walks 3 feet (3/8 inch) to 5 foot or more. Narrower walks in residential areas and wider in commerical areas. The overall width of a curb and gutter is about 1 foot.

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well it kinda depends on what kind of roads you want like if you want a no outlet road, a side road, or a main road[C):-)]

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I just typed, “Road and sidewalk widths, N scale,” into the search block at the bottom of this page. It returned six threads with lots of data and ideas.

Try it. You’ll like it.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in twice-N scale, 1:80)