Even though there's no trains in this commercial, I thought it's nice for Thanksgiving. For Trains & People on the forum - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!.
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Happy thanksgiving my friend.
Nice! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.
John P 
I'm at work so I can't see it, so I'll check it out at home tonight.
Happy Thanksgiving anyway! 
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans. mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
Great commercial, made me a little misty.
Way cool, thanks for posting.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone !!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty well done! thx
Thanks Bryan, and to all who replied. Yes this commercial does bring a tear to my eye and probably most others. But I knew people would like it. Makes me want to work on the layout before my family gets older and enjoy my life now.
Wonderful.....thank you so much for sharing!
Peter
Putnam Division posted:Wonderful.....thank you so much for sharing!
Peter
Your welcome and Happy Thanksgiving.
This is what Life's All About. Caring for Others. Yes, there is a Santa Claus, and even though he is in Our Imagination, He is Real. Christ Jesus Lives in our Heart and Minds, and He Created It All. This wonderful commercial really Says it All. Believe! Thank you for posting.....Merry Christmas....
I will always believe.
Larry, you are totally correct.
Jim, yes do, Believe. As the Polar Express had Believe in it to. Also, "One Thing About Trains, It Doesn't Matter Where It's Going, What Matters Is Deciding To Get On".
