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| Sunday, 22 December 2002 |
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Christmas Train 2002 : it's a joy ride Go round savouring the merry Christmas glitter enveloping Colombo and you come across something so totally unexpected that it makes you gaze and gape for hours-on-end as if caught in the mesmeric spell of a hypnotist.
From an onion-domed Lutheran Church, gaily skip out a newly married bride and groom and as cows moo, the street lamps are lit and Santa rolls out on his "gandy dance" trolley. Its a village cameo transported straight from the European swinging sixties, with huge Hollywood bill boards staring up the winding railway, screaming "Salome" and "Rebel without a Cause."
Secretary, Model Railroad Club, will remain open free of charge
throughout the season, to any one who wish to wallow in its mysterious
delights and rear closely authentic locomotives, wagons and the other
period pieces. |
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For, under the warm heat of tropical stars, is the snow-drenched
columns of pines lining the rugged peaks of Alpine. A train chugs up a
corkscrewing track along a bridge, past a quaint railway station, a coal
depot, a woodwork mill and woollen-clad children at Christmas rollick, and
vanishes into a cavernous tunnel. Cable cars scrawl high up to an
abandoned German castle now serving as a restaurant, offering choice
grille and beer, as a sentry paces watchfully on the battlement.
"Christmas Train 2002", a 28 X 14 ft. display area
choc-a-bloc with houses, sleighs, bridges, tunnels, meadows, pastures,
valleys and pine forests and villagers, including of course, the five
trains of 1:22.5 scale and the 500 feet of rail track, is extraordinary
Christmas entertainment for kids and the model train buffs. Presented by
Overseas Realty (Ceylon) Ltd., owner, developer and managers of World
Trade Centre, the train track is laid out at "Gallery", its
fourth-floor shopping area next to Deli Mart. The fascinating rail road
show, made alive under the direction of Vinodh Wickremaratne, Hony.
