...or, "What Happens When You Lend Prewar Lionels To Friends With A Weird Sense Of Humor".

ObFurry: Bill and Janet's cats love the train. So much, that they kept knocking it off the tracks as it lay under the tree. So, Bill and Janet decided to combine the train with their tabletop Nativity scene...and one thing led to another...

ObTrainGeek: Lionel 1668 2-6-2 streamiined loco pulling the Baby Jesus Train. Lionel 1688 2-4-2 loco parked in the creche. Baby Jesus parked in the gondola. Gabriel also in the gondola blowing his horn, which sounds suspiciously like the air whistle in the tender...

Baby Jesus © Joseph and Mary. Trains © 1938 Lionel Corp. Nativity scene © 1978 Sears. Photo © 2008 me.