EDAVILLE is where one goes,
Riding narrow rails when it snows…
Christmas displays
Along rights of way,
all lit up in lights!
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The “North Pole Express” is running,
All over the country by cunning…
Railroad lines
Wanting happier times,
Santa they know is coming!
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Look in the papers to see,
Where Christmas trains are running shortly…
It’s worth paying
For children’s playing,
Making positive memory!
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–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 
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By the great Jonathan Caswell.
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This is a really special train ride and I love your Polar Express reference, too! We have the Hallmark book with lovely illustrations, Jonathan. This is a fantastic blog post!! No wonder you received recent blog awards for me and others!! Smiles, Robin xo
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OH THE ADMIRING PUBLIC—AND FRIENDS WHO SAY SUCH KIND THINGS! Back before over half of EDAVILLE was sold and moved to Maine, My Aunt Maude, Diana and I (anyone else?) went on gtheir Christmas lights run–with snow, lights reflected on the cranberry bog water…and I loused up my tape recording of the thing…and some good drivier-slipping action earlier in the day!!!! Hard to get all that in a poem! A real steam engine out in Michigan #1225-? was used as the model for the animated movie version of THE NORTH POLE EXPRESS. I remember some of the “making of” writeups from then,,, 🙂
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