You can tell it’s the holidays in Chicagoland when even the trains start dressing up: This year, Metra has kicked the seasonal cheer up a notch, expanding its Holiday Train across all five lines so no commuter is spared the tinsel-festooned LED glow of yuletide cheer on rails. And you’d better embrace that wintertime joy quick—tickets for the festive railcars go on sale this Friday.

“Our Holiday Trains have become an annual tradition for our riders and their families, and we are happy to be operating them again,” Jim Derwinski, CEO and executive director of Metra said in a press release. “It’s our way to spread a little holiday joy and thank our riders for making Metra part of their lives all year.”

Every year, Metra transforms its hyper-neutral railcars into vestiges of a winter wonderl

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