All Items Now at 50% off

This Saturday, January 30th, all remaining items will be sold at 50% off. All consignments, and tinplate items are still 20% off. See you Saturday!

Online Newspaper Article About Closing the Store

Here is a very nice article about the store closing.

Sale Continues at 40% off

Our Sale continues today, January 23rd, with 40% off everything. At this price, we are very busy, too bad we are not making any profit.

SALE Continues at 30% off Everything!

Inventory is moving along briskly, and at 30% off, most items are being sold for less than they cost. It's all rather sad, after 10 years of selling trains, it all seems to be ending with a whimper. Just kinda' quietly fading away. We're still operating the layout for the kids, stop in and say hello while you still can.

Our Final SALE Schedule begins Now

This is just a reminder that our final sale begins this Saturday as we liquidate our entire inventory of Lionel, MTH, and Carrera items. Please pass this info on to your friends. purkeystoytrains.com

Purkeys Toy Trains is Going out of Business

Our retail store is closing. Just another casualty of the downturn in the economy. Details can be found on our website.

New Video of our Store Layout!

Our friend, Nick stopped in last week to try out his new video camera. We strapped it to a flatcar, and away it went! Here is the video

SALE on ALL Lionel and Carrera sets

We've now entered the last 2 weeks running up to Christmas, so as an incentive, we're having an online SALE on all Lionel Train Sets, and Carrera 1/32 slot car sets.
You can either purchase the items at our online store, and pick up at the shop, or we will ship it to you for FREE!

New Video of Our Store Layout

Our friend Nick, stopped in one day with his new video camera. We secured it to a flatcar, and pushed it around the layout with an steam engine. The result is an engineer's view of the layout, pretty cool!
Here is the video!

What's Hot This Year

Upon observing early shopping trends, we were correct that most shoppers would be choosing the less expensive sets this year, in the $200 to $250 range. What we did not predict was the intense level of interest in the tinplate standard gauge and tinplate O gauge sets. These trains are all made of painted metal highlighted with brass, copper, and nickel parts. They are copies of Lionel trains from the 1930's, and each sells for $600 and up. This is a surprise, given the economic uncertainty of the times.