Imagine the thrill when you child's "Hello" is greeted by a jolly "Ho! Ho! Ho!" During each live call from the North Pole, Santa will surprise your youngster with special knowledge of his or her favorite activity and most-wanted Christmas gift plus names of siblings, pets and best friend! Pre-recorded calls also available.

Eyes will pop when your child opens a personally addressed letter -- mailed straight from the North Pole! Each letter from Santa is filled with special details about its young recipient including child's favorite activity and most-wanted Christmas gift plus names of siblings, pets and best friend! Deadline to order is 12 December 2009.

Thanks to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program, needy kids across the U.S. will not be forgotten this holiday season. Toy drop-off locations are located in every state and include all Toys"R"Us and Babies"R"Us stores. To make a donation online using your credit card, just click on the link above.

CP's Holiday Train has helped raise millions of dollars and and millions of pounds of food to help hungry families across eight U.S. states and six Canadian provinces. This year, the need has never been greater. You can join with Canadian Pacific by making a cash or food donation when the Holiday Train rolls into your community. To learn more, please visit the CP Holiday train, linked above.

This holiday season, Santa and his friends are riding the rails to Metrolink stations in 47 cities... collecting unwrapped toys to give to unfortunate kids. There'll be fun for all the family when the train arrives... with 50,000 twinkling lights, musical entertainment and more! So grab a gift, check the schedule and be there when the brightly decorated Metrolink Holiday Express pulls into a station near you.

This short, printable Christmas book about a train for early readers features pictures to color and short sentences to copy. Pages feature Santa in the cab of a steam engine, elves shoveling coal, reindeer, candy canes, gingerbread men, snowmen and more!

Not a "Christmas train" per se, 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.

On Christmas Eve, NORAD's Santa Tracking Operations Center springs into action... guiding Santa on his round-the-world journey, while reassuring young American and Canadian kids of Santa's safe arrival. Up-to-the-minute reports track Santa's precise location as well as weather conditions along the way.

Play free! All aboard the Holiday Express! Christmas is white... the music is bright... and bonus rounds are sure to excite players of this online yuletide puzzle challenge. Load up colorful presents into Holiday Express train cars and reveal an ever-changing series of season-themed photos.

President Richard Nixon's love of trains is celebrated in this annual exhibit of rare, antique and famous miniature trains. Highlights include LEGO's Emerald Night Train. a Christmas Village by Department 56, Lionel and American Flyer classics, the Polar Express, Thomas the Tank Engine and more.

In Chi-town Santa rides the "L!" It's an L-train like no other, bedecked in holiday lights with St. Nick, his sleigh and reindeer taking the lead. Santa makes the rounds, line by line across Chicagoland, handing out candy canes along the way. Trains run right up until the Wednesday before Christmas -- leaving the Jolly Old Elf plenty of time to get ready for the big night.

The magic begins when this holiday brightener rolls into your yard on its motion-simulating wheels. Brightly colored 3-D holographic Christmas train -- a full 20′ in length -- hauls drummer flat bed, teddy bear gift box and reindeer caboose -- illuminated with over 1100 tiny lights.