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11/24/11 Happy Thanksgiving from Modeltrainpro.com
Modeltrainpro.com would like to wish every model railroader a Happy Thanksgiving.

Christmas train ideas
Maybe it is a little early to be thinking about Christmas but, we have been getting calls asking about different trains at Modeltrainpro.com. One call in particular asked about a train for a table. If you are new to model railroading, I would suggest getting an n scale train set which would easily fit on a table. If you do this, you can decorate around it and even make a village with the train running through it. If anyone has any ideas about using model trains as decorations for Christmas, feel free to post a comment. Here is a link to a nice n scale Christmas set we have in stock called the Bachmann Spirit of Christmas.

Christmas train rides in United States
There are many trains that you can take rides on throughout the United States and we found this Christmas train that looked very interesting.  If you know of others, please feel free to share them.  This train in the picture is not of this ride, just one we thought was interesting.

Christmas trains
Are there any Christmas trains that anyone would like to see featured here.  Feel free to let us know.

Civil War train article
I have been doing some exploring for Civil War trains with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and found this interesting article about a train wreck that happened between two trains, one of which was carrying Confederate prisoners of war. If you would like to read this article, here is a llink to it. Civil War Train Wreck What got me thinking about this was the new Bachmann ho train sets commerating the Civil War. We have a page devoted to these two set. One of these ho gauge train sets is a Union one and the other is a Confederate one. Here is a link to these Civil War model trains.

Favorite train sets to go around a Christmas tree
There are many Christmas tree train sets and we would like to know which are your favorite ones.  Feel free to share those with us.  One of our favorites is the Lionel A Christmas Story set which we have a new article about on our model train article page at Modeltrainpro.com  Click here to read this article.

Featured Product Friday
Today's featured product is the Lionelmodeltrainpro.com/lionel-o-scale-thomas-the-train-set.html o scale Thomas the train tank set with 30 watt transformer is available at Modeltrainpro.com

Featured product Friday
Today's featured product is a Christmas train by Lionel. The M7 Candy Cane Commuter 2pack is new to our website and is a very colorful Christmas train. Click here to learn more.

Featured product Friday, October 14, 2011
For this Friday, I have decided to feature a Williams Bachmann train. This is the Williams Bachmann o gauge engines Milwaukee Road f3 aa set and is a very interesting engine set for the o scale model railroader. This a really neat picture of this engine Modeltrainpro.com has a wide selection of Williams Bachmann o scale engines.

Halloween train rides
Does anyone have any interesting train rides they know of and would like to share with us?  Around the country, there are many trains that give Halloween themed rides and we would like to hear your story.

Happy Halloween
I would like to wish everybody a happy Halloween and have a good time trick or treating!

Happy New Year from Modeltrainpro.com
We hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year and are ready to start adding to their model train layout.

Here is ho scale model train video I made


Merry Christmas
Modeltrainpro.com hopes everyone had a Merry Christmas and would like to thank all of our customers for their business throughout 2011.modeltrainpro.com

Model train donated to hospital
I ran across this article of a model train layout that was donated to a hospital and thought it was worth sharing.  I found the article very interesting and here is the link to it.   http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/59474/Tell us what you think of this article.

Model train show
I ran across an interesting article about a train show in Green Bay, Wisconsin and here is a link if anybody would like to read the article.  http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20111024/GPG0101/110240518/First-Freeze-Train-Show-fun-all-ages?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|GPG-News

New Atlas RR page added at Modeltrainpro.com
We missed our featured product Friday so we are catching up today as we introduce a page devoted to the fans of Atlas RR. On this page, you will find Atlas RR ho gauge train sets, n gauge train sets, railroad track and ho and n scale diesel engines.

New from Bachmann
September 28, 2011We don't usually post about a train set during the week, but we finally received the new Bachmann ho Durango & Silverton set. This is a very interesting ho scale train set and we are excited to have it in stock and thought we would share this information.

Royal Gorge railroad in Canon City Colorado
One of the most interesting places to visit is the Royal Gorge located in Canon City, Colorado. The view from the bridge is breathtaking and can be a little scary looking all the way down to the bottom. The Royal Gorge train is on my list of trains to ride. Here is the website for the Royal Gorge train rides if anyone is interested.Royal Gorge trainWe do have an ho scale train set called the Royal Gorge set which has the picture of the actual Royal Gorge train on the box. ho scale Royal Gorge set

Santa Fe Railroad interesting facts
The Santa Fe railroad has always intrigued me and I was doing some research and found that it started in 1859 and was named in part for the capital of New Mexico and it was one of the pioneers in railway freight service. The railroad was mean't to go from Atchison, Kansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico.We recently got the ho Bachmann trains Santa Fe emd ft-a unit diesel engine back in stock. This is a classic looking diesel engine.

Santa Fe Southern train rides
I was thinking about interesting train rides and started looking them up and ran across this website about the Santa Fe Southern that is very interesting and these train rides look like they would be fun. If you are looking for a nice Santa Fe ho diesel engine, there are several at Modeltrainpro.com you might be interested in.