Each year Operation North Pole charters a special Metra train, designing special vinyl wraps that adorn both the outside and the insides of the cars. Each years' design is unique, making each train a festive and colorful display. This train runs on the Union Pacific North, Northwest, and West Lines of the Chicago Metra commuter service, operating not only as a special charter train on the NW line but remaining in service for a period after the Christmas Train event as rolling billboard to spread awareness of ONP and their goals.

Once again Kato USA has partnered with ONP to bring this special Christmas Train - a replica of the real life Christmas Train that was operated in 2018 to life as a means to support ONP's goal of spreading the magic of the holidays. To that end a portion of the proceeds from every sale of an Operation North Pole Christmas Train Set goes towards this charitable venture to help fund the chartering of this yearly train!

This year's Christmas Train release will be done as a custom paint release - what does this mean for you, as a customer? This means that unfortunately this train will not be sold through hobby stores - instead it must be ordered from Kato USA directly. We will take orders through the end of October (until the 28th), at which point we will send units to Japan to be re-painted based off of the quantity of orders we receive.

Delivery of these N scale custom painted trains is expected to be late December!

CLICK HERE to reserve your set now!