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Scroll down to find Holiday Information, help with Trains and Holiday Villages, and free downloadable Holiday Paper Kits.
Trains for the Holidays - useful info for running trains, giving gifts, and having trains as a holiday display. If you're new to trains, start here!
Holiday Layouts - track plans for display layouts and running trains under the Yule tree
Yule Tree Safety - be safe with trains around the Yule Tree
Old Trains from the Attic or Basement- If you inherit or discover old trains, learn what type they are and how to run them.
Tinscale Scenery - the way to make better Yule Villages - works great with Train scenery or Dept 56, Lemax and similar buildings & figurines.
Do Your Kids Love Trains? - tips and suggestions for parents of small children who love trains
Trains for Children - A guide for parents buying trains as gifts
Make a Holiday Display Layout - step-by-step photo instructions for small scale holiday project
Our Yule Tree Village 2002 - click here to see the first set of photos of our new Yule Holiday Village
The Santa Claus Train to Freehold - Conrail delivers Santa Claus to Freehold - a local tradition
Electric trains, the Yule Tree and a Stubborn Cat - hilarious Realplayer video of feline mischief
Our Yule Tree Village 2001 - click here to see photos of the train and village under this year's Yule Tree
Ocean Grove Train Display 2001 - see exciting O, N (N-Trak) and HO layouts for the Yule holidays!!!
Trains for Yule - the annual comedy of holiday railroading
Here are an assortment of downloadable paper kits. Just download, unzip, open in the appropriate type program and print. Once printed, just cut and assemble. They can even be assembled with clear tape - an issue that spares parents from having to clean up glue spills.
Files are in either PCX or WMF format. The Windows paint program is not powerful enough for larger files, and it does not handle WMF. For large PCX, try a shareware program. You can download them free from Tucows.com or CNET.com. A popular program is NeoPaint. You can also get Graphics Workshop, which converts files to other formats.
Note that PCX is a bitmap format similar to BMP. WMF is a vector format, and requires a Draw type program rather than a Paint program. (We have heard that some versions of NeoPaint can handle WMF as well as PCX.)
Click here to download your free Millennium Y2K Train Set
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Download the new Yule City Files - make an entire town in holiday decor:
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