The Wise Avenue Volunteer Fire Company’s annual Christmas train garden has been canceled this year amid a decline in volunteers available to build and operate the intricate holiday attraction.
For 45 years, volunteers have poured tens of thousands of hours into planning, organizing and building the Dundalk fire station’s train garden each fall, setting up favorite recurring displays and elements with a local twist, like a Key Bridge replica.
But the core group of volunteers who build the train garden is shrinking and aging, according to Bob Frances, a firefighter and spokesperson for the Wise Avenue station.
“We just don’t have people who have the ability and time to be able to do that anymore,” he said.
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