After many years of supplying the famous Plasticvilla USA structures in the hobby market, Bachmann branches out to include ready to run model trains in beginning in 1968. Though O and HO were the scales offered for Plasticville kits, N is the scale that first receives Bachmann ready to run model trains. This section focuses upon the rolling stock, both freight and passenger, offered by Bachmann in N-scale (1:160th actual size) since 1968. Bachmann has produces a wide variety of prototypes over the years and all are represented here down the left column by bodystyle.

Bachmann's 1968 catalog includes the introduction of the company's N-scale model train line. The catalog illustrations all feature HO-scale models subbing for the N-scale items. Rolling Stock for the launch of the N-scale line included a dozen different cars: Chemical Tank Car, 41-foot Box Car, 41-foot Mechanical Reefer, Quad Offset Hopper, Outside Braced Gondola, Cattle Car, Caboose, Three Dome Tank Car, Depressed Center Flat Car, 70-ton Covered Hopper, 50-foot Mechanical Reefer, and 50-foot Plug Door Box Car. Bachmann also catalogs locos, track, structures, and accessories for its new 1968 N scale collection.