Spooky train display to pull into station in Zelie
A festive autumn diorama will be on display again at the Masonic Building in Zelienople this Halloween.
The Model Train Club of Zelienople will present its Halloween-themed model train display on Oct. 31 during Zelienople’s Trick-or-Treat night from 6 to 8 p.m.
The display will be decorated with fluorescent paint and props that will glow under black light illumination, said Matthew Beahm, co-founder of the club.
“We got over 500 people who came through last year to see the display,” Beahm said. “Before that, maybe a couple hundred the first year. I’m assuming it will grow again this year.”
The club’s 20 members work to put together four different displays each year, for Easter, the Fourth of July, Halloween and Christmas, he said.
“It takes us approximately two days to set things up, and we do reuse things from the previous year. However, we’re continuing to add new things,” Beahm said. “This year, for the Halloween display, we’re going to have a miniature drive-in theater that will be showing ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!’ actually playing. We’re going to have a smoking house, a Ghostbusters-themed fire station with the Stay Puft marshmallow man and Slimer — and this is all in miniature and highlighted into fluorescent colors.”
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