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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Holiday transit decoration

Many transit agencies run holiday trains.  In NYC it's a retro train running on Sundays.  Chicago goes all out ("Who’s behind the CTA holiday train? Santa and the elves, of course.," WBEZ/NPR).  


The Canadian Pacific Railroad, now CP Kansas City has run a Holiday Train on their system for decades.

And the Metro-North (and METRA) commuter lines.  Metro-North New Haven photo by Gregory Grice.





ABC4 in Utah reports, "UTA gets festive by decorating Ensign Peak radio site with 3,000 feet of Christmas lights," that the Utah Transit Authority has put holiday lights on its radio signal tower.

Reddit reports holiday treated transit in Moscow.  The one that struck me as different is for a light rail vehicle, although some commenters figured it might be AI generated.


In Dallas, DART has a decorated light rail train ("DART rolls out decorated holiday train, buses," Community Impact).


Montgomery County Maryland (and others) do buses.



I haven't been able to find images of Hanukkah decorated transit in Israel.

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