Santa Claus arrived in my hometown of Freehold Saturday courtesy of Conrail and the Freehold Boro PBA. I posted some pictures of Santa's arrival last year, and in fact I have been attending this wonderful event each year since 2005.
The trek to downtown Freehold has become an annual ritual for myself and my six-year-old son - which also includes getting a haircut at the old barbershop I went to as a kid, a stop at Toys R Us to point out everything on our wish lists, and lunch at the area's best hot dog and ice cream joint, Jersey Freeze.
P.S. No mommies and sisters allowed!
Looks like your guy had some fun! There are several groups doing Santa trains in NJ, one I'm a part of is Volunteer Railroaders Association. Others are the Whippany Railway Museum and the Jersey Central and Tri-State Chapters of the National Railway Historical Society. Those rides are in some cases yet to run. Can a kid have too much Santa?
ReplyDeleteTrains are an interesting topic in Hillsborough - a town that had 4 passenger lines - (Delaware & Bound Brook aka Reading, Lehigh Valley, CNJ South Branch, and Mercer & Somerset) and now has none, and also had two major military supply depots.
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