Updated for the 2026 holiday season
The platform is cold in the way only a December evening can be cold. Breath hangs in the lamplight, a conductor in a long coat checks tickets against a clipboard, and somewhere down the track a locomotive lets out a slow, deep sigh of steam. Children in pajamas hop from foot to foot. Then the doors open on a warm car lined with polished wood, and the whole night changes. That is what the best Christmas train r…
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