The Morris Arboretum’s Holiday Garden Railway returns this Friday, November 27, after Thanksgiving. A quarter mile of track—featuring seven loops and tunnels with 15 different rail lines and two cable cars, nine bridges (including a trestle bridge you can walk under) and bustling model trains—is set in the garden. The display and buildings are all made of natural materials—bark, leaves, twigs, hollow logs, mosses, acorns, dried flowers, seeds and stones—to form a perfectly proportioned miniature landscape complete with small streams. Each building, while an exact replica of the original, is unique in its design. Masterpiece replicas of Philadelphia-area landmarks such as Independence Hall are made using pinecone seeds for shingles, acorns as finials and twigs as downspouts.

The buildings are all meticulously decorated for the holidays with lights that twinkle along the tracks and around the surrounding landscape. The Holiday Garden Railway features a Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, November 28 from 1-3 p.m. and runs daily from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through January 3, 2016 (closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day).

During Friday Night Lights, visitors can enjoy the Holiday Garden Railway from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on December 4, 11 and 18. To purchase tickets for the three evenings this year, visit Ticket Leap at
http://bitly.com/MAFNL15