Jingle Rails: Great Western Adventure December 17, 2010

The museum's Clowes Sculpture Court will be transformed into a locomotive wonderland, a network of trestles, bridges and tunnels with chugging trains and detailed replicas of national treasures, all wrapped up in holiday trimming. 'Jingle Rails' will be a journey to the Great American West - the real West and the West of the imagination. Watch and explore as seven trains wind past the local treasures of downtown Indianapolis, including the Eiteljorg Museum, Monument Circle and Union Station, through the national parks of the American West, passing legendary sites, including grand railway lodges, Northwest Coast Native villages, and wonders both natural and human-made--Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Falls, Old Faithful and more. Every canyon and mesa, every lodge and geyser even the replica of Indianapolis' own Monument Circle--are made with natural materials by Paul Busse and his company Applied Imagination. Busse's inventive holiday creations are rare and only seen in cities like New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C.; and now Indianapolis.