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🎄🚂 Santa’s Sleigh Needs Backup… Good Thing He Shops at Metro Hobbies! 🚂🎄

We all love Santa’s classic sleigh and reindeer team—but let’s be honest… those reindeer are a little underpowered for modern holiday logistics. 😉

A single reindeer only puts out about 190 watts of power—roughly 0.25 horsepower. Compare that to a draught horse that delivers a full 1 horsepower (and can peak at 15 horsepower!). That’s a huge difference when you’re hauling toys for the entire world in one night! 🦌💨

That’s why this year, Santa’s upgrading his Christmas operations with a little help from Metro Hobbies! From model trains to modern locomotives, we know a thing or two about real horsepower and how rail keeps the holiday rush on track.

Whether it’s a sleigh, a boxcar, or a fully decked-out HO scale consist, rail delivers the power and reliability Santa needs to make every stop—perfectly on time.

🎅 More horsepower. More fun. More holiday magic.
This season, Santa knows: Trains > Reindeer.

Happy Holidays from Metro Hobbies Nebraska!
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New, Peco Unifrog code 83 turnouts. Order yours today from Metro Hobbies. These are highly recommended for businesses th DC and DCC modelers as the frog does not need to be powered by may be powered if needed or wanted. Designed from AREMA standards and conforms to all NMRA standards. Compatible with other track systems.

NEW! PECO Streamline HO Code 83 #8 turnouts in UNIFROG The ongoing upgrade of our Code 83 track system has taken a further step with the introduction of the Unifrog format for the #8 turnouts. These turnouts repl...

Tariffs are on everyone's mind lately, and it's no surprise either. Our ever-increasing dependence on Chinese manufacturing means that tariffs could have a measurable impact on all of our pocketbooks. So, what's this got to do with Kadee and the model train hobby? Why isn't Kadee worried?

Everyone knows that Kadee's high-quality products are made in the USA. But what does that really mean? Here are some insights you might find interesting:

-We do our own die casting and injection molding – we perform every step.
-We start with pallets of raw materials – no pre-made components.
-We design everything right here – our engineers dream it and build it.
-We make our own dies and molds in-house – no outsourced manufacturing.
-We even make our own springs – those are some tricky machines.
-We make our own packaging – car boxes, printing, etc, etc.

Pallets of raw materials come in, and packaged products go out – it's that simple.

When most companies state their products are "Made in USA", they tend to leave out the part that says "with imported materials and components." Here at Kadee, we think that "assembled in the USA" is not the same as "MADE in the USA".

OK, we can't make everything from scratch. Screws, for example, are something we're just not equipped to make. Some plastic packaging is also too complex for our machines. But for those very few items that we do buy, we buy from American suppliers.

When we say Made in the USA, we mean it in the most literal sense. American workers, creating American products, to provide for American families. We've been doing this since day 1 for over 75 years.

That's Made in the USA.
That's Kadee.

Check out the new model announcements from Bachmann Trains.
These are available to order from Metro Hobbies now.
Just email at [email protected]

Metro Hobbies Metro Hobbies is an Omaha based retail sales company specializing in model railroad supplies and Digital Command Control (DCC) sales & service since 1997.