Join Santa for a jolly spin on a Christmas-bound express! A holiday ride aboard a Christmas fun train makes a unique holiday gift idea. Holiday season train rides are scheduled throughout December 2007. Some railways even schedule special runs on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and during Christmas vacation.

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Train ride events make memorable Christmas entertainment choices. Kids can meet the real Santa Claus live aboard a North Pole Train Ride. Other Christmas time trains feature Christmas activities for kids, Christmas dinner parties and more.

Our guide features train rides in Australia, Canada and across the United Kingdom. In the USA, Christmas trains will run in New England, in the Mid-Atlantic, and in the South, Mid-West, South-West, and West regions.
 
Choose your location, above, then find a Christmas train ride at a railway near you. Reservations are required in some instances and advised whenever possible.
 
Santa's Train Printable Book
EnchantedLearning.com
A short, printable Christmas book about a train for early readers, with pages for the student to color and short sentences to copy. Pages feature Santa in the cab of a steam engine, elves are shoveling coal plus reindeer, candy canes, gingerbread men, snowmen and more onboard!
 
Santa's Mystery Train Printable Book
EnchantedLearning.com
Short, printable Christmas book for early readers use fill-in-the blank sentences to describe each page. Pages feature Santa, the Elves and Reindeer plus Carolers, Snowmen and more aboard a fun-filled holiday train.
 
The toy train that rules Christmas
By Vivian Baulch, The Detroit News
No toy is more closely identified with Christmas than the toy train. If truth be told, the popularity of toy trains at Christmas has as much to do with the yearnings of adults as with the requests of children.
 
Train Set for the Jet Set
By Paul Flavin, frontiernet.net
Not a "Christmas train" per see, but too good to leave out... author Paul Flavin has created this dandy Java applet that allows anyone to construct a train set within the web page, and to run the train around the track.

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