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Victorian Christmas 2023 - Decorating Party & Potluck Supper - NOW November 19th

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Stephen Piwowarski:
Hi All,

This year, someone special will be returning to Alna Center for Christmas! We're eagerly anticipating returning to an event that is more in keeping with our Victorian Christmas Trains of years past.

Saturday November 18th Sunday November 19th we'll be holding a work party at the Railway for the purposes of getting the railway decorated for Victorian Christmas. We'll gather beginning at Noon at Sheepscot to begin decorating process, ride the train up to Alna Center to decorate there and follow up with a potluck supper back at Sheepscot when we finish up.

Please join us if you can, we'd love your help!

Best,
Steve

ALAIN DELASSUS:
Happy about the return of an event in the spirit of Victorian Christmas Trains. If there is some snow, not too much of course, there will be wonderful pictures or videos. BTW, why have WW&F never set up a special event for Halloween like quite lot of tourist railways in the world ?

Benjamin Richards:
Victorian Christmas is sort of the exception to how we usually run things, in that we handle the entire event internal to the museum. In general we've found it works better when we focus on being the railroad, and let other partners handle the actual events.

We run Pumpkin Picking Trains though most of October, and our partner SeaLyon Farms handles the pumpkins, hayride, food vendors, etc. But it is built around an autumn / harvest festival theme, rather than being haunted or spooky.

James Patten:
We used to do Halloween trains, where we did the decorating and tear down.  At first they were very popular, but you're supposed to mix things up over time and we didn't do that very much, and the popularity dropped.  We also made the choice to use local high school kids in skits along the line, but they ended up sometimes being inappropriate.  At the end we were rather fed up with the effort to put it on for diminishing returns and stopped doing it.

John Kokas:
I am so glad to see Victorian Christmas returning to the RR.  We have spent so much time and effort erecting that wonderful pavilion at Alna Center, it should be the destination for our Christmas Trains.  I hope that Santa, and "hopefully" vendors will participate and have a Christmas Market similar to what you find in Europe.  There is plenty of space and even some side "tents" would add to the event.  Only issue I see is how to either tarp or drape the sides/end of the pavilion to cut down on cold/wind/rain/snow for the people inside.  I do hope that the event is a whole weekend so more families can enjoy the event.  Prior weekend's should still be to Sea Lyon for Christmas Trees, etc. if Sea Lyon wishes to continue.

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