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Lionel Holiday Tradition Express | 
 enlarge | Brand: Discovery Channel
Category: Toy
List Price: $269.95
Buy New: $239.99
You Save: $29.96 (11%)
New (5) from $239.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 23093
Autographed: No
Age: 8 - 14 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 40
Dimensions (in): 36 x 22.3 x 7.7
MPN: 711000
UPC: 023922110008
EAN: 0023922110008
ASIN: B000H27E32
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Inspired by classic Lionel trains of the past ? and updated with infrared technology | | • | G-gauge steam locomotive | | • | Plays 3 Christmas tunes | | • | Draped in festive holiday garland and bright holiday lights | | • | Can be configured as a 52" circle, 65" circle, or longer oblong track |
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Product Description
Bring more merriment to the holidays with this deluxe and detailed Lionel train under your tree. Inspired by classic Lionel trains of the past and updated with infrared technology. G-gauge steam locomotive. 8 infrared buttons control movement and sounds. Realistic start-up includes chuffing, whistle and bell sounds. Plays 3 Christmas tunes. Santa says "Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas." Draped in festive holiday garland and bright holiday lights. Snow-covered track and animated elves. Can be configured as a 52" circle, 65" circle, or longer oblong track. Includes 16 track pieces, 4 trains with moving figurines, DC transformer and AC adapter. Easy to unpack and repack storage box. The magic of the holiday is captured in all the many details of this charming train set. Kids are captivated, and parents get a nostalgic return to the Christmases of their own childhood with this classic Lionel set. Safety warning: This product contains small parts that may present a choking hazard for young children.
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's a Lionel, the best name in Trains December 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great product, great service,, even great price. Ordered this train to place around our Christmas tree. Everyone who has seen it has remarked about how nice it is and how it brings back memories of the trains they had years ago. Lionel still makes quality products. I expect our great grand children to run this train under their Christmas tree many years from now. If you are shopping for a Christmas train, this is the one to buy.
 Beautiful but very loud December 2, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This train looks incredible, but unfortunately is so loud that we aren't sure we'll ever turn it on. The animated & lit cars look very attractive - not cheesy or flimsy like so many plastic holiday decorations. The carols are nice, but you can hardly pay attention to them over the engine noise and the din of the wheels. My husband is a big kid at heart and loves things that move, light up, but especially those toys that have a bunch of buttons & gadgety features to play with. He thought this would be a train our kids would really enjoy as they grew up. This train does have all of the nifty gadgety features and the neat looking cars and remote were great to play with for the first few minutes, but the noise is so distracting that even my husband is a bit skeptical that we'll turn on this train much after watching the train run for a few minutes. All in all, I am only moderately satisfied with this set. Since it is expensive for an under-tree train, we are not even sure we will keep it.
 Nice looking, sounds dismal. Not Lionel Quality December 1, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought this train as a pre-sale special 5 months ago. It arrived this week to a very excited dad and son. Looking at it raised our expectations of Lionel quality. Once set up our hopes were dashed as the grinding gears and loud clicking of the contacts as they passed over the track joints. The train didn't seem to "roll" on the tracks as much as slide around. This clicking, sliding, metel to metal slide sounds destroy any ambience the train sounds try to generate. Every car truck has the spring loaded contacts which generate the majority of the sounds.
VERY DISAPPOINTED, will not keep this set. Not what I expected from Lionel.
A New Classic from a Classic Train Manufacturer November 10, 2006
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Recently, Lionel has been working very hard to make trains that people want to buy. They seem to be succeeding. In 2004, the Polar Express disappeared from most shelves by early December (and some folks got their "Christmas train" in February. In 2006, this train has the same potential. Unlike the Polar Express, this train is "Large Scale" (the size of trains that people run in their gardens). That means that it is just about as large as the "standard gauge" trains that Lionel and companies like Ives used to make a century ago. You won't be able to put one of these under your tree without people noticing - it's big.
This train is solid and well-made, with an usually high quality of painting and detailing. I am not a collector, so I won't guess about its long-term collectibility. But I do know that Lionel promises to add one new car a year for the next several years, so they certainly plan to keep this product alive, unlike some toy companies that sell a neat (but flimsy) toy train one year and discontinue support the next. Considering that Lionel still offers support for virtually every train it ever made, you can think of this as an investment in fun that should last for generations.
Paul Race - Editor, Big Christmas Trains
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