It’s Holiday Season: Grand Central Terminal Train Show Opens for 13th Year

Their faces plastered to the clear screen, two boys exclaimed in excitement as a toy train marked with the Yankees and Mets logo sped by.
It’s Holiday Season: Grand Central Terminal Train Show Opens for 13th Year
The train show exhibit at the New York City Transit Museum at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. It opens from Nov. 16, 2014, to Feb. 22, 2015, for its 13th holiday season. Annie Wu/Epoch Times
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NEW YORK—Their faces plastered to the clear screen, two boys exclaimed in excitement as a toy train marked with the Yankees and Mets logo sped by.

Silvina Sterin’s two sons are big fans of baseball—they just finished playing a season with the Yorkville Baseball League. And they love to look for small details.

Sterin brought her sons to the holiday train show at the New York Transit Museum in Grand Central Terminal after searching on the Internet “for something interesting indoors,” Sterin said, as a reprieve from the cold weather. 

Now in its 13th year, the annual train display draws about 60,000 people to visit the museum, according to Gail Goldberg, the senior manager of retail operations and product development at the museum. 

The train show is part of a rotating lineup of exhibits there. “This one is the favorite,” Goldberg said. Last year, one mother brought her child to see the show every day. “The kid would jump up and down each time the train went by,” Goldberg recalled.

Children viewing the annual train show at the New York City Transit Museum at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. (Annie Wu/Epoch Times)
Children viewing the annual train show at the New York City Transit Museum at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. Annie Wu/Epoch Times
Annie Wu
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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