HAVE YOUR BIRTHDAY AT LONE STAR TRAINS! Ask us for more info. THE BIRTHDAY ROOM IS COMPLETED!!

JUST IN:

NOW STOCKING a COMPLETE LINE of BALSA WOOD!

CLICK HERE FOR NEW THOMAS GIVEAWAY!! Starts Wednesday March 19 

Casey Jones Day Sale & Celebration

Important Announcement from Lionel regarding 2008 volume 1 preorders.

05/08/08: DVDS: Santa Fe Into LA; SP Film Archives 1 &2; Runnin' the Highline; Daylight Freedom Special; Train Meets 2; Alaska Vol.3; Street Running.

05/07/08: Downtown Deco O Gauge buildings! Command Control for Toy Trains Book; Model Power N Scale MKT steam Pacific; BCR battery replacement restock; Corgi airplanes;

05/06/08: Atlas HO MKT RS3; Atlas T&P 3 bay hoppers; Bachmann HO restock--Gordon, Coal Wagon,  well wagon, cream tanker, raspberry syrup tanker; salt wagon, RF container wagon, 6 ton wagon, Sodor Fuel Tank.  Bok: mastering the Zephyr restock. MRC 10 amp power pack.

05/05/08: Lifelike Proto 2000 HO North Texas Central diesels. TCS decoder restock. 

05/01/08: BIG Lionel NEWS!!

04/22/08: Thomas Shortalls, Thomas Short Sets, Thomas Summer PJs, Thomas Wallets; and a very special hard to find Lionel G SCALE Thomas the Tank Engine JAMES and the Troublesome Trucks set. Digitrax Super Empire Builder. Lots of Walthers Cornerstone kits;

04/21/08: New $28,000 store inventory purchased from another hobby store closing.  We've been pricing and inventorying as fast as possible--come on in and see what's new!!

04/16/08: Atlas HO T&P hoppers, Atlas HO MKT RS3, TCS decoder restock; Polar Express Disappearing Hobo restock; Lionel Santa Fe El Capitan add on cars;  Book: Industries Along the Rail 3; Athearn HO 40' stock cars; Athearn BW cabooses, HO; Athearn HO Challenger #3985; Athearn HO 60' flats; Athearn N SCALE WEATHERED Boxcars including PEARL; Athearn HO SD45s;

04/15/08: MTH Operating Coors Brewery; Acurail HO Bi-Level Auto racks; K-Line Circus figires and accessories; more Thomas puzzles; SP Daylight and Big Boy t-shirts; Wooden Thomas Rumblin Bridge, Start Your Engines set, Oil Derrick, Deluxe Water Tower; Take Along Thomas Daisy and Troubleseome Trucks;  

04/14/08: Pentrex Norfolk Southern Rathole Combo DVD; NEW THOMAS DVDS: PERCY AND THE PLUNGE; ENGINES AND ESCAPADES (WITH SOME STUFF NEVER SEEN ON TV); THOMAS AND THE TREASURE.

04/11/08: Lionel Legacy Update for current owners. Click here.

04/10/08: NEW Thomas DVDs! LIONEL CHRISTMAS CATALOG IS IN THE SHOP.

04/08/08: link page updated.

03/28/08: New DVDs: U-Boat Survivors, UP Turbines of the Wasatch. Digitrax decoder restock;

03/27/08: Atlas O Texas and Pacific Mail Box Cars. VERY limited uncatalogued car--we have a few left.  They are sold out at Atlas O.  

03/20/08: New HO Grayhound Buses from Classic Metal Works

03/19/08: New Plush dinosaurs who make dino-noises; ATLAS O Southern Pacific Limited Run boxcar--only 2 in store, so hurry!

03/18/08: NEW Thomas and the Treasure DVD; Big HO Athearn shipment including some great diesels.  Lots of new O gauge from a  recent small modern era collection has hit the floor.

03/15/08: Bachmann 2008 HO/N/G catalog is now in. Intermountain metal wheel restock.

03/14/08: Lionel ZW; Mastering the Digitrax Zephyr restock; Miniatronics restock.  More merchandise is appearing on our site.  Keep wathcing as we try to slowly list items of our inventory.

03/10/08: DOZENS of new Railroad DVDs!!

03/06/08: Lionel Polar Express Disappearing Hobo Car back in stock; TONS of NEW HO Athearn; UP San Antonio Service Ring, San Antonio Service Area Hats; 

03/05/08: LATEST O gauge RRing magazine; Interesting American Flyer S baggage carts with men;

03/04/08: Micro-Trains Special Run SA&AP San Antonio and Aransas Pass SPECIAL RUN 40' wood boxcar 2 pack; MINT 2002; still sealed; ALSO: Micro-Trains Special Run International and Great Northern I&GN 40' wood boxcars, Special for the Houston N Crowd. MINT, sealed.

02/28/08: Lionel Texas Special Set with LEGACY 6-31755; Small Lionel Postwar Collection with some interesting Plasticvile; 6 different books on the Baltimore and Ohio; Burlington Zephyr books; New Gund Gone Fishin PLUSH Animated Bear with singing fish--together they sing "Hooked on A Feelin'"; Lionel 6-27243 SP PS-1 Boxcar; K-Line S-2 Circus Diesel switcher; K-Line 6-21267 PRR Electric Bobcat; K-Line New Haven Electric Bobcat 6-21268; Lionel 6-14255  Sand Tower; Ho Athearn SSW SD45T-2; Athearn HO 40' Modern Boxcar in many roads; Athearn 1/50 scale John Deere; Athearn HO KCS executive F7 AB;  Lionel 6-36853 US Exploding Boxcar; Mastering the Zephyr book restock; Athearn HO 50' DD plug boxcar; Athearn 34' PS2 hoppers; MTH 20-98495 Schnabel Flat US Army; MTH SP DAYLIGHT Passenger SET;  

02/26/08: NEW Wooden Thomas Items: Sir Topham Hatt's Car; Rumblin Bridge; Oil DERRICK; Deluxe Water Tower; 5 in 1 Track Layout Expansion Pack

02/18/08: ATHEARN N Scale BIG BOY steam engine 4-8-8-4 just arrived; KATO GS-4 Daylight steam engine and passenger cars now here.

02/15/08: NEW Thomas Puzzles, including some neat wooden counting and opposites puzzles. NEW BOOK: Logging Railroads

02/14/08: NEW plush animated characters for Easter such as Bunnard the Bunny who sings with very animated ears; Egg-Drop Duck who quacks.; ATHEARN GENESIS HO SCALE BURLINGTON F3 A-B BOTH POWERED, DCC & SOUND 

02/13/08: Lionel Best Friend of Charleston Add-On Car; K-Line Circus S-2 diesel engine; K-Line SP Work Train; K-Line New Haven Boxcar Electric; 

02/12/08: Latest Narrow Gauge Gazette is in; TRAINS magazine; 

02/11/08: NEW 2008 THOMAS the TANK ENGINE YEARBOOK is in!!!

02/08/08: Lionel POSTWAR #224 US Navy AA Alco Set in GREAT shape--hard to find.

02/06/08: MTH Operating Coors Light Beer Car (chrome, smokes, etc. like the Silver Bullet); HO Kansas City Mexico and Orient stock car;

02/05/08: LIONEL and K-Line 2008 CATALOGS for CUSTOMERS now in store.  Lionel ZW transformer with 2 180 watt power bricks. New train t-shirts. Thomas wooden Deluxe Roundhouse restock. New Atlas Quarterly catalogs with O, HO, and N scale product.  Athearn N scale Santa Fe Ice Reefers; More Athearn John Deere HO scale; Athearn HO tank cars; MTH O scale Harley Davidson Corner Store; Lionel DOUBLE Tunnel Portals; cool Woodland Scenics HO Service Station; Lifelike HO Proto USRA 50-ton gondola Union pacific, Rock Island, MKT, more

02/04/08: Lionel has updated its LEGACY MANUAL:  LEGACY MANUAL UPDATE

02/01/08: Atlas O Trainman Missouri Pacific MoPac Bay Window Caboose, red and awesome!!

01/31/08: Counter copy of new Lionel catalogs available for persusal; customer copies coming soon.

01/30/08:  NEW TAKE ALONG THOMAS: Daisy, Giggling Troubelsome Trucks, Peter Sam, Stepney, Fearless Frreddie, Oliver; LIMITED TIME: Thomas the tank T-Shirts in size 10/12; 

1/29/08: Book: Mastering the Zepyhr; Digitrax Restock;

01/28/08: Book Page updated.

01/23/08: USA TRAINS Missouri  Pacific Eagle G gauge passenger set; Lionel LEGACY Expansion set; Lionel Advertising Boxcars including a stunning Southern Pacific Daylight advertising boxcar and a new 1950's catalog advertising boxcar; Walthers HO 130' Turntable; MTH Standard Gauge COORS LIGHT REEFER; MTH Wall Street Money Car like a mint car; 

1/20/08: MTH O gauge 2-8-0 Consolidation with Protosounds 2.0;  BOOK: Modeling in the 50's, the Glory Years of Railroading; NEW nicely landscaped tunnels in all scales and priced LOW!! $7.50-14.99; Slinky restock. 

01/19/08: American Flyer (by Lionel) 770 Reproduction Loading Dock; Lionel collection of 18 Die Cast Tractor Trailers in many names;     

01/16/08: New Gund I've Been Working on the Railroad Animated Musical Bear; New USA TRAINS BIIIIG G SCALE  Diesel engines; USA TRAINS G SCALE Santa Fe Streamlined passenger cars

01/15/08: LOTS of NEW Bachmann HO THOMAS the TANK ENGINE has arrived such as: Emily, Emily's Coaches, Cattle Wagon, Container Wagon, Coal wagon with load, 6 Ton Wagon, Raspberry Syrup Tank, Well Wagon, and Cream Tanker.  WOW.  Wooden Thomas new characters Billy, Hector, Sir handel, Sodor Chicken Cars, Boulder Expansion pack.  Take Along Thomas: Peter Sam, Oliver, Stepney, Fearless Freddie. Also in: MTH US Army passenger set; 

1/14/08: HUGE new N scale collection in including tons of interesting Micro-Trains. We are pricing it as fast as we can; it will trickle out over weeks.

01/07/08: Digitrax Soundbug for 165 series; Corgi Harry Potter die cast vehicles; Athearn HO cement trucks; Intermountain HO Rock Island reefer;Thomas Deluxe Knapford Station; MTH Oil Derrick; New O scale Woodland Scenics figures; HO and N scale ballast spreader tools; MTH Heritage MoPac tank cars; 

01/03/08: HUGE HO ATHEARN SHIPMENT JUST IN: Santa Fe Bi-Centennial SD45-2 with DCC and sound; Lots of 20' and 40' containers; John Deere die cast log skidder, tractor, combine, in HO and 1/50 scale; AC4400 KCSM, GE Demo/UP, SP GP40X restock, Athearn 60th Anniversary GP40X; SD60 EMD Demo; ALSO Lionel Hot Box reefer restock; N scale building kits; HO U29 ore cars; HO die cast vehicles; USA Trains G scale seated passengers; MTH O dwarf signals; 

01/02/08: More NEW K-Line Ringling Brothers items. NEW Lionel American Flyer S scale track. 

12/28/07: Lots of NEW Bachmann HO THOMAS the TANK characters

12/23/07: Lionel Ducking Rudolph Car (like the old Giraffe car)

12/21/07: Lionel Legacy (the new generation of TMCC) is HERE! Lionel Thomas Diesel; Lionel Christmas Tree Generator Car; MTH MoPac Heritage SD70ACE set; MTH DALLAS Cowboys Trolley set; K-Line SuperStreets! Thomas Harold the Helicopter with magnet; Lionel 6-36849 Tell-Tale Reindeer Car

12/19/07: Lionel Helicopter Pylon; Lionel/K-Line US Army locomotive 21223; Sunoco Industrial Tank Yard; MTH COORS 19th Century Woodside reefer; Lionel North Pole Central Flat car with Santa and Mrs. Claus Handcar; Lionel yard Tower; Lionel/K-Line US Army locomotive 21223; Tons of new K-Line Ringling Brothers Circus stuff such as the streamline passenger cars, Circus Porter steam engine and four different flats with loads; Lionel Art Boxcar #3; Corgi Die Cast Harry Potter trains and vehicles

12/14/07: Wooden Thomas Sodor Fire Truck restock; a really cool curved O tunnel by MTH; Athearn MP-15s in HO scale;  TUNNELS in ALL SCALES; N scale auto-max cars; JLI HO details; ,ore Athearn HO John Deere; Santa Fe Bi-Centennial SD-45s; K-Line/Lionel people packs; MTH and Lionel Christmas figures;  

12/07/07: Christmas Gandy Dancer in HO; American Flyer CNJ Blue Comet set; Lionel Battery Operated G gauge Polar Express set only $129!!; Lionel O gauge Polar Express Disappearing Hobo Car; Lionel Old West Lincoln Logs train set; tinplate windup skier; Thomas Complete Stories book restock; MKT Dining Car silver collection priced and on the sales floor; Atlas N scale MKT flats with trailers; Bachmann DCC American Freedom steam train; Thomas Make-A-Plate kit; Lionel witch Pylon; Lionel Christmas people restock; Athearn John Deere HO vehicles; Athearn HO MP-15 diesels; 

12/04/07: MUSICAL THOMAS TOOTHBRUSHES!! On30 Jingle Bell Express train set- great for Christmas Villages; scented smoke restock; Athearn GP50s; HO gandy dancers; Athearn HO pick up restock; Athearn Santa Fe Ice reefers; N scale trolleys; Lionel Lenny Dean Commemmorative Boxcar; Lionel/K-Line Ringling Brothers Circus flatcars with tractor trailers--two different kinds;  DVDs-- Ultimate Cajon Subdivision, Donner Pass;

12/3/07: 2008 Official Locomotive Rosters and News

11/29/07: HO scale assembled building collection

11/28/07: OWN the engine that was in SAN ANTONIO last year--the UP 844 Northern.  It is IN STOCK NOW-- NEW ATHEARN GENESIS steam engine with all the bells and whistles.  This is HIGH quality stuff.  Get it while you still can!!

11/26/07: New Thomas character: WHIFF! Come and get it while it is still here.  Also Thomas the take Engine Make A Plates.  Make your own Thomas plate for yourself or as a gift!

11/21/07: Atlas O Missouri  Pacific GP diesels; Atlas O New Orleans and LA Trolleys (these are awesome); Set restock;  Digitrax decoder and Soundbug restock; Wooden Thomas Peter Sam re-issue!

11/15/07: A new memoribilia collection featuring MKT KATY dining car china and a REAL conductor's hat! K-Line buildings, K-Line Diner, Thomas Rescue Hospital, Micro-Trains new releases, Lionel TMCC UP set, MTH flavored smoke, Book: Detailing Diesel Locomotives.

10/29/07: Come in and see the ALL NEW HO and N scale Steam sets offered by Athearn and Roundhouse--they are super high quality and a great value!!!

10/27/07: News Flash: Settlement reached between Lionel and MTH. Click here.

10/16/07: Athearn RTR PS2 hopper restock; MTH Harley Davidson train set; MTH Coors Light Silver Bullet train; 

10/15/07: Lionel Christmas porthole caboose 6-36583; Santa and Snowman boxcar 6-36850; Naughty and nice twin bin dump car 6-36821; AMERICAN FLYER NEW YORK CENTRAL SET; Lionel 6-36824 Alien Smoke boxcar; THOMAS TANK WOODEN MUSICAL BOXCAR RESTOCK

10/01/07: NEW MTH O gauge HARLEY DAVIDSON Steam freight train set.

09/25/07: Amazing Athearn Santa Fe Depot built up; RTR Accurail Auto loaders; 

09/24/07: N scale Athearn SATX CPS hoppers!!!  

09/21/07: JUST IN--Book--Trackwork for Toy Trains by Classic Toy Trains.

09/20/07: NEW American Flyer book--Standard Catalog of American Flyer Trains (standard, O, HO, and S gauge!); GREENBERG 2008 PRICE GUIDES in for LIONEL and FLYER!!

09/15/07: Lots more Lionel and American Flyer Christmas items are in;

09/05/07: Athearn HO SATX HOPPERS ARE IN!

09/04/07: WALTHERS 2008 HO CATALOGS NOW IN!  STILL ONLY $9.99.  

08/31/07: Lionel Halloween such as the PUMPKIN handcar, Trick or Treat Aquarium car; Halloween train set and more.  Lionel Santa Fe transparent car; Florida State boxcar;  Alien Radioactive Flat; MTH Missouri Pacific 2 bay hopper;  Atlas O REA reefer; N scale Athearn UP SD70 Mac; Athearn HO TRAIN SETS; Tons of HO electric Thomas; 

08/27/07: More heavy duty HO storage boxes; new Thomas stickers and activity books.  Athearn HO train sets;

08/17/07: Athearn Fire Trucks 1/50 scale

08/14/07: Lionel Macy's THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE boxcar restock.  Walthers N scale oil pumps; 

08/13/08: MTH O gauge DALLAS COWBOYS steam engine

08/11/07: Arnold the Snoring Pig--must see to believe; LINKS page updated.

08/07/07: K-Line New York Central streamlined Dreyfus Hudson with Lionel TMCC and Railsounds; K-Line GG-1 with Lionel TMCC and Railsounds; 

08/03/07: Lionel 2007 volume 2 catalogs in; more Athearn crane/tender sets in local roadnames; NdeM F7 A/B set; more metal signs; SILLY PUTTY just like you remember; Lionel Christmas snowplow; Lionel Angela Trott Thomas 2007 boxcar; Vintage Rivarossi MKT Mikado; Collias' hard to find book KATY POWER; 

08/01/07: Atlas O built up station; Athearn HO C44-9W restock; Athearn HO GP-40x restock; HUGE WOODEN THOMAS SHIPMENT just hit.

07/26/07: Just arrived: Sound Bug decoders and sound modules from Digitrax.  We can install and download your sound for you right here in the shop!!

07/23/07: BOOK: Authoritative Guide to Lionel's Promotional Outfits 1960-1969 by John Schmidt. 846 pages! See book page for more.

06/28/07: new Lionel SP GPs; new American Flyer such as the Union Pacific SD9 diesel, the UPS Commemorative boxcar; and the C&O tie car;

06/19/07: MTH O Gauge Over and Under tunnel; THOMAS WOODEN JEREMY and the Airfield Set; MTH Coors Light Chrome tank car; MTH MKT Hopper; MTH MKT Caboose; Lionel Union Pacific Heavyweight Madison Passenger car set; 

06/13/07: Athearn water towers: All American City; Atlas Mopac MP-15; Athearn HO Big Boy; lots of new Thomas puzzles.

06/07/07: New Tinplate Train Tippy Toy-- loads of fun!!

06/06/07: New Pentrex CAB FORWARD DVD.  One word: WOW.

06/05/07: New HO Collection purchased and hitting shelves-- lots of Athearn, diesels, ATSF, much more; some new USA Trains G scale such as TTUX f;ats with loads, refrigerator cars, more; Some new Proto 2000 diesels; HO building kits; Cornerstone O scale Rte 66 Motel; 

 We now have Thomas and other train related HELIUM balloons--latex and MYLAR; great for birthdays and retirement parties

Please look around. Remember, things are changing constantly on this site, so check back often.

Site updated 5/12/2008

For special requests, wants, or more information, please feel free to fax us at (210) 655-4679 or email us at  clayk@lonestartrains.com

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