WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg home is already on track to be one of the city’s top destinations for those who like to admire outdoor Christmas displays.
“Our Christmas display, we’ve been working on it now for a couple of years and I’ve always liked trains so I added a train this year,” says Paul Halipchuk. His brightly lit Island Lakes home now boasts an elevated train track in the front yard, and a working model train that makes that rounds accompanied by Christmas music.
“Everybody’s been stopping by, (Wednesday) is the first day we lit up the lights and we had a lot of compliments and people were even stopping and commenting when I was building the track a week ago before it got too cold,” says Halipchuk, who is also a Manitoba Hydro engineer.
The display also includes an old fashioned mailbox with the name “Griswold” on it, a humorous nod to the main character in the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation movie whose highly decorated home has become a metaphor for Christmas excess.
Halipchuk’s display is at 569 Island Shore Boulevard.
“This will be on until after Christmas probably till New Years,” he says.
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