Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden

Ellis Island

Brooklyn Bridge

Townhouses

Guggenheim Museum

My father and I spent the morning of Christmas Eve at the New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show.  I went once before several years ago.  There aren't enough superlatives to describe the train show.  If you're ever in New York between Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day skip Rockefeller Center (it's a big tree with too many lights and people skating on a tiny rink, big deal) and head up to the Bronx.

The holiday train show is more than trains.  The most amazing part of the show is the dozens of New York City and Hudson Valley buildings rendered in various bits of vegetation.  Bark, branches, berries, leaves, twigs, moss, mushrooms, seeds and other plant parts are put to good use recreating well-known and not-so-well-known buildings.  The main building at Ellis Island and the George Washington Bridge made their debut this year.

Most people are just at the gardens to see the train show.  After viewing the trains and buildings we escaped through to the upland rain forest section of the conservatory.  From there on we mostly had the deserts and rainforests to ourselves.  As a bonus, the garden shop has an outstanding selection of (mostly) botanically oriented tree ornaments.  I picked up an acorn and a gingerbread house ornament.

The Holiday Train Show continues until January 13th.

Comments

[cheryl]

This is amazing! What a magical display.

[Joe]

The group that puts the show together, Applied Imagination, has photos from this and other exhibits on their website.

[gesundheit]

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