Holiday Celebration at the Gregg County Historical Museum

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• published: 03 Jan 2015
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For the first time this holiday season, the Gregg County Historical Museum, in downtown Longview, Texas, pulled out all the stops for Christmas. This year's museum holiday decorations included a 8 x 44 foot 3 rail O gauge toy train display. This is the first year that the museum has had a fully operational train display running during normal museum hours and manned by model railroaders from the hobby. In years past there was a G gauge train display but there was no one on staff to run the train all day, everyday the museum was open. Hi-lighted here, some video clips of the layout dressed out in an early winter scene with a light dusting of snow. Also at the exhibit was a collection of Santa Claus' from around the world, on loan to the museum for the holidays. Donated to the museum some years ago, a very large collection of Christmas Village and Dept. 56 building. Put the 3 collections together and you have one very dynamic holiday display. The main entrance area of the museum was dressed in Christmas as well. Christmas trees, table top decorations, and signs of the holidays were located in each exhibit area of the museum. Our thanks to the staff of the Gregg County Historical Museum, Steve Gatton, Steve Holcombe and Fred Bauer for their time and contributions to make this holiday tradition at the museum a very big and this highly attended event a big success for the museum. Visit the museum's web site at http://www.gregghistorical.org for more information, special exhibits and hours of operation. Happy Holiday and New Year! Visit our website: http://www.easttexas-modeltrains.org All videos on this channel are the sole property of East Texas Model Trains A Not-For-Profit web site and You Tube Channel