New to Google Checkout? Try it and SAVE $10!!! Start saving now and use your $10 savings towards your order right now. This offer is good till June 30th 2007 and is only valid for new members only. Using Google checkout is easy and just as easy as Paypal. But it can only be used on our website, eBay doesn’t allow us to use Google checkout on their website.
Decorate your train room now! Trainz.com offers a huge selection of Train paintings by artist Robert West. Right now, we are offering a terrific selection of train paintings at 25% off! Please visit our site at www.trainz.com and click on Trainz Paintings. This is also a super gift idea too, for that hard to buy train hobbyist in your life!
This is the Granddaddy of them all! The York, Pennsylvania Train Collectors Association Eastern Division Train Meet. This meet will run for 3 fun-filled days - April 19th to 21st.
The York Meet is held every Spring and Fall, and boy what a show it is! This train meet has it all, including guests Jerry Calabrese and Mike Wolf who will present at The National Toy Train Museum on the 18th of April. The Meet itself is a place to lose yourself in a deluge of O gauge trains, meet new friends and join in the camaraderie of the model train hobby. In order to attend you must be a TCA member. You are required to be sponsored by two TCA members to qualify for membership. Scott and Milinda Griggs, owners of Trainz.com, are both TCA members and would be happy to sponsor your membership. To become a member of the TCA, please visit their website here. For sponsorship, please email us here at help@trainz.com with TCA membership in the subject line and we will be happy to help our Trainz customers.
Our friend Dave from O Gauge Watch, offers an insiders look at this incredible Train Meet. Please see his articles about his visit to the 2006 meet here.
Trainz is really bustling this month with the largest collection we have ever acquired. We’re hard at work processing all the items as quickly as we can. These items are all Mint and in their original box with manufacturers that include MTH, Marklin, Lionel, and Micro-Metakit, just to name a few. 
It took (3) 26 Foot Trucks and (2) 14 Foot Trailers to move this collection to Trainz! And, can you believe that just 2 guys and a girl got the job done? Believe it! Scott Griggs - owner of Trainz, Marty Larkin - Repair Technician, and Stephanie Forth – Inventory Dept. got the job done! We owe them a huge THANK YOU!
Trainz is growing! We have just expanded our warehouse space with an additional 3,000 sq. ft. in order to create a whole new shipping and receiving area and expand our workable space. We’d like to give a big Trainz THANK YOU to Michael, Shayna, Stephanie and Cindy for going above the call of duty and volunteering to spend their Saturday prepping and painting the new space.
This is no surprise to you ole-timers who have been with Trainz for many years, but I have spoken to quite a few of our new eBay customers this week that didn’t know about our website! As we have developed through the years, so has our website. We now have one universal page that lists all of our sites on one page. That page is www.trainz.com. From that page you can click on the Trainz Store, which takes you directly to the web store. Or, you can click on Trainz Preorder to view our latest preorder program we are offering. You’ll also see the banner for our Trainz Paintings site and our Trainz Marketplace website, where other model railroaders can trade with each other.
The best reason to shop our Trainz Store is to get the best possible price before it goes to eBay and is put up for auction. Most of our inventory shows up on our website first, where you have the first chance to grab it before it goes to eBay. Plus, most of the items on our website are offered at a discount. Generally, our items stay on our website for 2 to 4 days, if they don’t sell they are automatically listed on eBay where everyone has a chance to BID to WIN!
MTH 1 Gauge Preorder Program – FREE SHIPPING!
This preorder program will begin in a few days on our website www.trainz.com just click on Trainz Preorder to go to our PreOrder site. The deadline to get your order in will be May 25th.
To view the catalog click here.
To visit the MTH 1 Gauge website click here.
The LIONEL CHRISTMAS CATALOG IS HERE!!!
Don’t get left out in the cold this year, preorder now to guarantee availability. Remember a lot of items sell out before they are even released. And as always, don’t forget preorders receive free shipping! This years catalog is full of surprises, like the Polar Express in G Gauge, the Snowman Express train set, a brand new music boxcar, a new peppermint tank car, and there’s also a Christmas generator car too! There’s so much more, so please take a look and visit our preorder site today! The deadline is May 8th.
Preorder your Lionel Harry Potter Hogwarts Express Train Set now! The set will debut in the Vol 2 catalog coming this Fall. You can secure yours with a preorder now at www.trainz.com and click on the PreOrder site.
This photo of the pre-production unit of the Hogwarts Express was taken by Les from Mainline Hobbies while attending the New York Toy Fair.
Fraud on eBay - Second Chance Offers, etc. Just a quick reminder to let you all know that if you ever receive a second chance offer to purchase an item from us after an auction has closed, do not respond to it. In very rare cases, we may send a second chance offer depending on what the item is, but in most cases we just relist the item if we have a non-payment issue. If you receive one of these offers and you are unsure if it is us, directly email us at help@trainz.com and we will validate the email. Do not click the reply button to the email you received, create a New email.
News Flash ... Cash Back!
If you use Paypal, you'll be interested in knowing that Trainz is participating in the My Store Rewards program. With this program our customers will receive cash back on their purchases, just by making your payment with PayPal, and agreeing to receive custom email notifications from MyStore rewards about other products you may be interested in you receive 1% cash back on all your purchases! To learn more about this great program please click on this link for more details http://www.mystorerewards.com/msr/rules.htm.
If you haven't heard by now, myspace.com is the leading site on the web for networking with all types of people and a place where you connect with friends with the same interests... Like Trainz! If you have a myspace account please stop by and add us to your friend list and check out our page. If you are new to myspace.... What are you waiting for???!!! Not only is it fun but it's also free and great for busy people to connect with family too. Several of us have our own pages where we post photos of our family, pets, and post what we're up to. You can visit our myspace page at www.myspace.com/trainzstore.
We want to see your layout! Share your photo's of what you have created for others to see and we will post your photo's on our myspace page. You can see our page at www.myspace.com/trainzstore. Email your digital photo's to help@trainz.com. Let us know if we can use your first name and the state you are from.
Visit our friends at O Gauge Watch for exciting news & updates on the latest happenings in the O gauge world of model trains!
