Santa Express

A little tourist town railway runs Santa Express excursions, and this town was made popular by a nightclub called the Stork Club that featured Big Bands such as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman etc and my father always told me about going there before he met my mother. I wonder if he had taken a camera back then if his shots would have looked like these as the train takes kids to see Santa further North of town.

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Good ones. I've heard of the Stork Club & wish I could have stopped in there.

Here is a link to some history on the place.

http://musicmemories.c​a/

Turns out the railway was behind it as a way to generate revenue.

Most people today have no idea how important the railways were to settling North America.

Wow, that's definitely the Little Engine That Could!

Its a GE 25 Ton built in 1952. They have a second 25 Ton, a 44 Ton and a 50 Ton also. They have some larger cars that they use for murder mystery/dinner trains and addition rail mileage excursions.

The station was an actual flagtop for the hamlet of Union ON which is just east of the station.

I was really suprised at the turnouts for the 3 trains they ran on Saturday.

Bosscat wrote in post #13569464
Its a GE 25 Ton built in 1952. They have a second 25 Ton, a 44 Ton and a 50 Ton also. They have some larger cars that they use for murder mystery/dinner trains and addition rail mileage excursions.

The station was an actual flagtop for the hamlet of Union ON which is just east of the station.

I was really suprised at the turnouts for the 3 trains they ran on Saturday.

Santa trains seem to be popular around these parts, too.

Those little workhorses are definitely fun to find and capture.

There are 3 trains within a two hour drive of my house that ran Santa trains, and I was most familiar with this area, having been to it a few times this summer.

I actually looked into all of these little excursion trains and decided that I would put my mother on a couple of them that have dinner trains, and then go shoot the train in a few choice locations.

That is actually her Christmas present, a few train excursions throughout 2012.