All Aboard Jingle Rails INDIANAPOLIS – One of Indianapolis’ favorite Hoosier holiday traditions returns this season when the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art presents the 14th annual Fifth Third Bank Jingle Rails: The Great Western Adventure. Running from Nov. 18 through Jan. 15, the family favorite Jingle Rails model railroad display will also be open late on eight dates between Dec. 16 and Dec. 30 so families have more time and opportunities to enjoy this favorite holiday attraction and the entire museum. Visitors are encouraged to purchase discount tickets in advance at Eiteljorg.org/JingleRails. Since 2010, Jingle Rails has delighted families across the -28- | ExtendedWeekendGetaways ~ December, 2023
region, building on lasting memories and creating new ones. Returning to the Eiteljorg each holiday season to experience the unique sights and sounds remains a family tradition for thousands of Hoosier families.
holiday lights, Lucas Oil Stadium, Union Station, a miniature Eiteljorg Museum and other fixtures of downtown. The display also features other Indianapolis treasures: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indiana State Fair. The journey heads West past iconic scenes With more than 1,200 feet of and landmarks, including the track, Jingle Rails is a whimsiGrand Canyon, Yellowstone, cal model railroad that features Las Vegas and the Golden a network of G-scale trains Gate Bridge, among others. winding through tunnels and The entire Jingle Rails display over trestles, rambling past was designed and built by the iconic scenes of Indianapolis creative artists, botanical archiand the American West, creattects and landscape designers ed with all-natural materials at Applied Imagination in such as tree bark, twigs, leaves, Alexandria, Kentucky. nuts, pine cones and other woodsy materials. The adven“Visiting Fifth Third Bank ture begins in Downtown InJingle Rails at the Eiteljorg dianapolis as trains chug past Museum is a cherished holiday Monument Circle decked in tradition each year for so many
