Decorations were placed on almost everything that doesn’t move.
Lighting in one of the high-level passenger cars. WBT&S Engine 1 by day The experience is especially impressive at night. The Garden of Steam glows with soft light. The cars are lit in Christmas colors.
Engine 1 transformed by night.
The ethereal Garden of Steam at night.
Each Polar Express experience begins in the People’s Gallery. A stage is set up depicting a child’s bedroom. Children in the audience are encouraged to sit on a rug in front of the stage, and are often joined by one or two parents. A girl comes into her room and sits down on her bed.
Soon after her father comes in and they have a discussion about Christmas and then they read the Polar Express book together.
Families gathered to see the Polar Express reading.