The NY Times gives the Holiday Train Show at the Botanical Gardens up in the Bronx a thumbs-up.
The Guggenheim Museum is set in lush woodlands, shaded by a Norfolk Island hibiscus, its Frank Lloyd Wright organic spiral evoked by layers of black locust shelf fungi. A train shaped like a ladybug whirs along a track that runs under the Washington Arch (made from willow, canella berries, pine bark and walnut shells). Another train runs past the crowded towers of Midtown Manhattan, making room for Rockefeller Center’s heraldic Christmas angels (composed of okra pods).
A series of the city’s bridges spans the show’s central walkway, with trains running on them as well: the George Washington Bridge (made from willow, bamboo and cedar bark), the Manhattan Bridge (oak, hickory and elm, with willow branches), Hell Gate Bridge (oak, black walnut and eastern red cedar) and the Brooklyn Bridge, whose neo-Gothic arches are lined with sugar-pine-cone scales.
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