Monday, February 06, 2012

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, Christmas Time

Scottsdale has a wonderful park dedicated to miniature trains, ranging from Z-gauge on up to others that are big enough to ride on.  During the Christmas season they put up decorations along the tracks.





They've also just added a new building for their small-scale layouts.  They expect it will take the volunteers another 4 or 5 years to complete all the work that they're doing.



As you can see in the shot below, there are different layouts for each of the sizes and a lot of open framework is still showing.  I personally hope that they leave at least a little of that so that visitors can see the "behind the scenes" work.  It's pretty impressive!



Well worth a trip in July, but especially festive just before Christmas.  A word to the wise:  Go during the week and before school gets out for the holidays.  The lines get very, very long on the weekends!  Oh, and the park entrance is free, but it does cost a couple bucks to ride the train.

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