Trainz.com Newsletter

Tis the Season! It’s not too early to start thinking about the holiday’s! In fact, how often do you say to yourself after the holiday’s have passed “I wish I had started my shopping earlier!”?

Well here’s your chance… This year from Trainz.com, we have have added an exciting feature sponsored by PayPal. We can now offer our customers the convenience of Gift Certificates for our website! Gift certificates are the perfect gift for those in your life that are impossible to buy for. They can be redeemed at our website anytime! Here's several other gift giving ideas below for the holidays.


Facts about the Trainz.com Display Layout:

The Trainz.com display layout built in June 2007 measures 10 x 10 feet. The benchwork is 2x4 framing and legs with a ½” Plywood tabletop, covered with 1/8” Masonite sheeting. The green edging around the layout is made of 1x4s with 1x2 bracing. The structure of the layout is strong enough for a person to walk on.

The track is all Lionel Fastrack. The outer loop has O-60 curves, the inner loop has O-48 curves, and the Figure 8 and sidings are O-36. The switches are all O-36 except for the two forming the crossover between the two loops, which are O-60. All switches are remote controlled. The track is secured to the table using GarGraves track screws, with one screw in every other section.

The outer loops run on command control, and the figure-8 is wired for conventional operation. The outer loops have both Lionel’s Trainmaster Command Control and MTH’s DCS system installed. It is configured so that both systems can operate simultaneously.

The switches are wired through a Lionel SC-2 controller, and the operating track section is wired through a 14185 TMCC Operating Track Controller.

The buildings and other accessories have 14 volt constant power.

The entire layout, except the Figure 8, is powered by a MTH Z-4000 Transformer. The Figure 8 is powered by a Lionel CW-80 transformer, the type found in most starter sets.

The layout was constructed by the Trainz.com shop. It took about 3 days to build the table and lay the track, and another week of working off and on to wire it and finish the edging of the benchwork.

The Lionel Trains lettering along the front of the layout is a laser-cut reproduction of Lionel display lettering from the 1950s and will be available on our site in the future. They are not pre-painted.

The scenery is an ongoing project that will be completed over the next several months. Check back from time to time to see our progress.

Thanks for looking!

Tommy Feldman
General Manager, Trainz.com
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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.


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