My locomotive on the Norman Rockwell Christmas - can’t connect cars

[Jerseymom]

I received the Norman Rockwell Christmas train set as a gift a few years ago and now have space to put it around tree. The locomotive has no way to attach other cars and none of the other cars attach to each other easily. Right now the locomotive is traveling around by itself and the other cars are looking like they are in an abandoned train yard. Can this be fixed?

[jward]

Is your locomotive running with the tender aka coal car?

[trainman203]

You can always figure out someway to connect them with a bread tie or something.

[Jerseymom]

There's nothing on the back of the locomotive to even attach a bread tie to.

[Terry Toenges]

Is it HO or the larger On30? Bachmann made Norman Rockwell trains in different sizes and the locos attach differently. The box should say what size it is.

[Terry Toenges]

This is the HO one -

This is the On30 one -

[jward]

There's nothing on the back of the locomotive to even attach a bread tie to.

That is why i asked the question I did. Flip the locomotive over. You'll see a slot underneath the cab. On the front of the tender you'll see a protruding arm with a vertical pin. This pin slides in the slot underneath the locomotive cab. With the engine and tender thus connected you should be able to couple the rest of the train to the rear of the tender.

[the Bach-man]

I wonder how the connected the backwards tender in the Applebee's ad!
Have fun!
the Bach-man

[Jerseymom]

I did look at it; I don't see a small slot, but an open space that looks like it could accommodate the tender. I'll give it a shot, thank you!