Hammacher Schlemmer has the BEST Christmas Decor. Check out our FAO Schwarz Train!

Classic FAO Schwarz Motorized Train from Hammacher Schlemmer

What's a tree without a train? Not as fun, not as fun at all, if you ask my youngest son that is... so what do we do when big brother comes to visit? We take out the train that just arrived on our doorstep and get busy assembling it around the Christmas Tree (one of two trees we have up this year)!!

You know if the box on your doorstep says "Hammacher Schlemmer" it's going to be a good day. This online store is jampacked with everything you could possibly want to decorate for most any holiday, and it's perfect for this time of year when we go all out to decorate for Christmas!  Their slogan is "Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 169 years." Take a look at their site and you'll see why that's true. I could literally spend all day looking at their items and shopping. They have such surprising, wonderful things!!  

You can assemble the generously-sized track in most any direction you'd like it to go. It can actually go up to an 8'4" x 4'3" oval, so this classic FAO Schwarz motorized train will fit around even the biggest of trees! You don't even have to have it going around your tree, we just like to do that here.

 Assembly was actually pretty fast, and the tracks click together with a wonderfully nice fit, so you don't have to worry about the train jumping the track all of the time ( a challenge we had with a previous brand years ago).

Once the track was assembled and in place, a simple adjustment or two was made and this little beauty was on its way. The engine lets out an authentic locomotive sound, and the working headlight lights the way. These are the kind of decorations that help make Christmas even more memorable for the kids, and the adults too.

If you have any track left over, you simply store it in the box, sweep up any pieces of foam that came out when you opened the box (I had to add that part, lol) and hurrah! you've got yourself a Christmas Train (and a new family tradition)!

This is the motorized train set from Hammacher Schlemmer and made by classic toy maker FAO Schwarz. The black-, silver-, and red-painted 2-6-0 tender issues the realistic sound of a real steam locomotive while its working headlamp illuminates the way ahead. Pulled behind are three cars: a black freight car with a sliding red door, a silver passenger car with clerestory windows that would have kept passengers cool during summer trips, and a classic red caboose. Running on three AA batteries, the train rides on 40' of G-scale track that forms an 8'2" x 4'3" oval which surrounds even the fullest of Christmas trees. (8 1/2 lbs.)

This is just one of many wonderful items available at Hammacher Schlemmer. Visit the website to learn more. You can also like them on Facebook, Pinterest and/or Twitter.