On Track for Christmas: How Model Trains Found Their Way Into Holiday Tradition
LEBANON, Pa. â When this holiday season rolls around, youâre likely to find a Christmas tree with not just gifts under its boughs, but also a model train encircling its base. Itâs easy to understand the symbolism behind putting a star at the top of a Christmas tree and the gifts beneath, but how did that model train find its way into holiday tradition? The link between trains and Christmas dates to mid-19th-century Germany, where the hand-carved wooden villages placed beneath their decorated holiday trees began including carved wooden trains. How Model Trains Became a Christmas...
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