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We offer a wide range of N and HO Scale Model Railroad products in stock and ready to ship! We are known for our great prices and fast friendly service. Because we also have a “Brick and Mortar” store you can shop here with all the advantages and convenience of the Internet and the confidence of dealing with a well established retail store. It is unlikely you will ever have a problem when dealing with Online Trains but if you ever do, you can rest assured, it will be handled quickly and to your complete satisfaction. We can’t say it any better than our customers already have: “These guys are the best!”

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Model Train News ZOOMCO Available exclusively at Online Trains! ZOOMCO brings a new level of realism to Model Railroading. These easy to assemble kits come factory aged and weathered. They assemble quickly but look like a craftsman spent weeks on them. Be among the first to own one of these excellent models! CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL PRODUCT INFO ON ZOOMCO FACEBOOK PAGE ---------------------------- ZMN03 SHANTY/SHACK Scene (Kit) Includes 2 sections of dirt road, 4 50 gallon drums, clothes line w/old tree, wood pile w/ax and rubber tires all factory weathered and ready for your layout! ---------------------------- ZMN02 OLD COUNTRY ROAD/BARN Scene (Kit) Includes 2 sections of road, 3 telephone poles w/wire, country fence, road guard rails and barn all factory weathered and ready for your layout! ---------------------------- Zoomco N Models Quantities are limited - order today! More models coming soon.  Check out Zoomco model reviews in current issues of N Scale Railroading and N Scale Magazine. ALSO- Don't miss the Model:160 review online CLICK HERE TO SEE REVIEW

Online Trains News We are your Kato Unitrack specialist - complete line in stock and ready to ship! Check out the Kato V and M series of track sets - great way to get started or expand your empire! --------------------------- Walthers North American Ethanol Series available at Online Trains! North American Ethanol -- Modern Industry for Your HO Railroad   Ethanol is big business--especially for railroads. Long trains of identical tank cars and huge strings of covered hoppers moving grain and ethanol byproducts have become an important part of the railroad landscape. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, ethanol has more than DOUBLED the traffic hauled by some railroads!   Cornerstone North American Ethanol series kits, Gold Line(TM) freight cars and PROTO 2000(R) locomotives make it easy to add this rail-dependent industry to your model railroad.   Ethanol traffic touches almost every corner of the North American rail network--from the vast cornfields and wheat fields of the midwest to busy petroleum terminals in large cities. It should touch your post-1980s model railroad too!   Seven Cornerstone kits make modeling a complete ethanol plant easy. Three Gold Line freight cars make building your ethanol- and grain-hauling car fleet fast and fun. And a new release of PROTO 2000 EMD SW9/1200 locomotives are ideal for working the loading facilities and support trackage at your ethanol plant.   Build a Business or an Entire Layout   With everything you need to add an ethanol plant on your railroad, plus all the cars and a switcher to serve it, you'll have everything you need to re-create an entire industry for your railroad.   Plus, Cornerstone Modern Grain Series kits and other Cornerstone structures complement North American Ethanol kits, making it easy to model everywhere ethanol goes--from field to fuel tank! Supplies are limited Also available: 3/19/2012 HO WALTHERS TRINITY 30,145 Gallon Tank Car HO WKW Trinity 30,145 Gallon Tank Car -Quantities limited! 3/19/2012 HO WALTHERS TRINITY 5361 4 Bay Hopper HO WKW Trinity 6351 Hopper -Quantities limited!