--- title: Viral Man Wins Christmas With Train That Transports Gin description: Not all heroes wear capes canonical: https://time.com/5068833/christmas-bar-hack/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-18T17:31:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:21.278Z og:title: Hero Wins Christmas With a Bar Cart Toy Train og:description: Not all heroes wear capes og:url: https://time.com/5068833/christmas-bar-hack/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt720809e4ef9b0280/69877067cd1bbad99b6f454e/santa-claus-christmas-005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Maine Daily Life og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hero Wins Christmas With a Bar Cart Toy Train twitter:description: Not all heroes wear capes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt720809e4ef9b0280/69877067cd1bbad99b6f454e/santa-claus-christmas-005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Internet Legend in the Making Wins Christmas With a Toy Train Bar Car > Sponsored content. 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Bukaty) A man portraying Santa Claus moves between cars while greeting passengers during a Polar Express holiday train ride to the "North Pole" on the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad, Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, in Portland, Maine. The Polar Express is the largest annual fundraiser for the railroad's museum. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Robert F. Bukaty—AP by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 18, 2017 5:31 PM UTC At this time of year, surviving [Christmas](http://time.com/5047224/best-christmas-movies/?iid=sr-link6) is the number one item on most people’s agenda—if your holiday shopping is done, that is. If you’re concerned about bickering relatives, political arguments, family dramas, and wrapping all those presents (how do you wrap a [Fingerling](http://time.com/money/4932908/fingerlings-hatchimals-hot-holiday-toys/) exactly?), an internet-legend-in-the-making just came up with the best [Christmas hack](http://time.com/5062415/tom-hanks-and-stephen-colbert-fight/?iid=sr-link7) of all time. Transport historian Tim Dunn, who has appeared on the BBC’s Trainspotting Live and knows a thing or two about trains, turned a toy train into a real life bar car. He hacked the train, turning it from a novelty into a game-changer that delivers gin and tonics from the kitchen to his couch—and blows the Polar Express out of the water along the way. The model railroad runs on a 40-foot track and is set on a timer so that every two minutes it transports drinks from the kitchen to the living room on a festive Christmas-light adorned trailer. Dunn debuted the gin-and-tonic delivery system at a holiday party and it was a hit, according to [_Huffington Post UK._](http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/man-wins-christmas-with-train-set-that-carries-gin-from-kitchen-to-sofa%5Fuk%5F5a3797cbe4b01d429cca4dd2) In the spirit of surviving Christmas, Dunn probably won’t mind if you take his genius idea and lay some track to deliver a little Yuletide cheer in the form of spiked eggnog on [Christmas](http://time.com/5060413/james-corden-katy-perry-miley-cyrus-christmas-carpool/?iid=sr-link10) morning. > [](https://twitter.com/MrTimDunn/status/942490071604883461) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5068833/christmas-bar-hack/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5068833/christmas-bar-hack/"},"headline":"Internet Legend in the Making Wins Christmas With a Toy Train Bar Car","datePublished":"2017-12-18T17:31:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:21.278Z","description":"Not all heroes wear capes","url":"https://time.com/5068833/christmas-bar-hack/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","christmas","life hacks"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt720809e4ef9b0280/69877067cd1bbad99b6f454e/santa-claus-christmas-005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt720809e4ef9b0280/69877067cd1bbad99b6f454e/santa-claus-christmas-005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Maine Daily Life","caption":"Maine Daily Life","creditText":"Robert F. 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