Mom and pop Christmas tree farms have one more hassle to worry about this year when Amazon starts selling seven-foot-tall Christmas trees for the first time.

But one local Christmas tree farmer has a plan.

“My customers are real discriminating,” Harvey Hawken, owner of Crystal Creek Tree Farm in Maple Valley, Washington, said. “I have people who come out here and spend two days just trying to find a tree. They bring their lunch. And they look around, and they look around, and they put little markers on the trees that they kind of like. And some of them come back the next day.”

Still, what Amazon lacks in customer discernment, it gains in convenience. Customers will be able to have their trees delivered to their doorstep.

Hawken said Amazon’s trees will likely come from farms very different than Crystal Creek Tree Farm. To save money on roads, larger farms harvest trees by helicopter, he said. Workers on the ground cut the trees and put them in a net to be airlifted out.

Hawken doesn’t like to build roads, either – they cost too much, he said. But this year, his practical solution to that problem will become a sort of secret weapon.

For the first time, he’ll haul customers and their trees from the woods to the parking lot on a tiny locomotive he’s been restoring for 18 years. He laid the tracks three years before Amazon moved into its South Lake Union headquarters in 2007.