A model train running in circles along a track below the Christmas tree was once a holiday must. And while it has faded from favor in most homes, anyone interested in experiencing the joys of a model train holiday display could head down to D.C.
But why bother when there's a much more convenient and dazzling display at the B&O Railroad Museum?
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"The B&O Railroad Museum is home to the oldest, most comprehensive collection of railroad artifacts in the Western Hemisphere and within its iconic Roundhouse, surrounded 360-degrees by true historic engines, some of the most interesting of model train layouts are found.
"The Holiday displays are set up in the Roundhouse [but] in addition to these visiting model train layouts, we also have our permanent HO model train layout that's actually built inside a C&O 725 passenger car!" said Dana Kirn, B&O Museum's public relations director. "Outdoors, a G-scale layout measures 240-feet in diameter."
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