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.
