Tree Sales, Train Garden Open At White Marsh Volunteer Fire Co.

WHITE MARSH, MD — The White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company will open its holiday train garden Friday at the station on Philadelphia Road. The display runs through Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020.

Members of the fire company created the train garden, which includes waterfalls, six trains, a trolley and more than 100 animated objects. It is free to check out, and donations are welcome.

Hours for the train garden are below, and they coincide with the annual holiday tree sale.

Proceeds of the tree sale will benefit the White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company, which said this is its largest fundraiser of the year.

The tree sale will feature the following:

• Fraser firs from 5 to 11 feet tall
• Wreaths (both plain and with decorations)
• Roping and swag

Tree sales will continue while supplies last at the White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company, located at 10331 Philadelphia Road.

Hours for the train garden and tree sales are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. opening day (Friday, Nov. 29).

Then the display and tree sales will be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; and 2 to 9 p.m. Monday to Friday. The train garden will be closed on Christmas Day. It closes Sunday, Jan. 5.

Members of the fire company invite the public to visit and get to know first responders.

"If you meet our volunteers on the scene of an emergency, you really don’t get to know us," Paul Piker, a volunteer at the fire company, said in a statement. "With the garden, you can get to know us better as opposed to on an emergency."

For nearly 50 years, Piker has been a model train enthusiast, and he was the one who organized the train garden, according to a statement from the fire company.