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Well this year only have three train related ornaments.

In fact the reason I probably put the tree up this year.  A very close family member gave me this ornament for Christmas last year.  A 2014 White House ornament honoring Warren G. Harding's funeral train. 

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An ornament picked up years ago. 

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And the "I Believe" bell from the Polar Express set.

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Now the Christmas of 2016 a few weeks after get a Trifecta medical diagnostic finally did my trains, planes and automobile tree.

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Set out the Blue Comet under the tree with a special tree topper form Hallmark that projected falling snow flakes on the ceiling and upper walls.

Ron

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For the last 24 Christmases I have hosted my entire 26 member family for what we (I) call the annual family train party.  As a 'thank you', my brother and his wife each year gifted to me a very unique train ornament for the tree.  Here are some images of them on the tree from 2018.  Each ornament has either a built-in date or a hand written date for the year, and if hand written, the # of the train party.

I couldn't get closer to the tree, so sorry that things are a bit small.

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- walt

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I've shown this before.  No it's not an 'ornament' per se but it might be the most special train 'decoration' that I have.  As I've explained each time that I post a picture of it, I mention that it was a gift to me from my now deceased sister making it powerfully meaningfuil to me.  Here is this year's display of it on the layout with mirrors reflecting it.

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- walt

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I mentioned earlier here that each year I host a 'family train party' and my Brother and his wife each year gift to me a tree train ornament as a thank you.

Here is the one that they gifted to me this year.

Station Square is in Pittsburgh.  It used to be a large train station, if that's the correct term.  The significance: I live and grew up in Pittsburgh!

'Uncle Buck' is what my nieces and nephews call me.  Long story but it's based on the movie with J. Candy.  Earlier I mentioned that many of the ornaments has the year embedded as part of it, but when not my sister-in-law paints the year onto it.

-walt

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