Here is the CPR Xmas Train - run each year as a charitable operation, its aim is to both collect and distribute food to the needy.
The train includes country folk groups etc who sing at the various stops.
The train basically runs from east to west and back along the US/Canadian border, crisscrossing back and forth.
The pictures after the night shot are basically in the normal consist order.
Canadian Pacific Xmas Train
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There's a little seaside town called Blackpool (sounds like the beginning of one of Mike's dramatic monologues - didn't Albert and a lion live there?!) in't north of England, where heritage trams still run a regular public service. Blackpool, apart from being famous for its tower (which looks like a slightly scaled down version of the Eiffel Tower), is also famous for its lights - the Blackpool Illuminations. The trams also carry fairy lights during the season (roughly September to November). Quite impressive. The trams run through normal streets, and along the sea front promenade. Some of the trams are double-deckers. I believe parts of the system were shut down recently for repairs and renovation.
The Blackpool Illuminations website claims, 'At 10 kilometres long and using over one million bulbs the Blackpool Illuminations are an awesome spectacle. The Blackpool Illuminations consist of almost every kind of light display you can imagine: lasers, neon, light bulbs, fibre optics, searchlights and floodlighting. In 2005 there were more than 500 scenic designs and features. There are set pieces made out of wood studded with light bulbs: the characters and objects portrayed seem to “move†by way of winking lights. Three-dimensional illuminated scenes are also popular. There are over 500 road features attached to lamp posts linked together with festoon lighting. Strings of lights along the structure of buildings pick out landmarks in luminous detail – you can always make out the Tower and the Pleasure Beach rides in this way. All the hotels on the east side of the Promenade are floodlit in colour sequence. Even the trams on which you can tour the lights are illuminated and decorated with specific themes. There has been a Wild West tram, a Space Rocket and the Trawler. Take a tram for a grandstand view – arguably the best way to see this electrical extravaganza.'
I used to ride on the trams from the late 1950s when we used to visit a great-aunt in Knott-End-on-Sea. We'd get a small ferry across the mouth of the River Wyre, and catch the tram at Fleetwood to travel to Blackpool. It's the 'only surviving first-generation tramway in Britain, dating back to 1885, and serving... Blackpool and its suburbs. It is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world. The tramway is run by Blackpool Transport, who are owned by Blackpool Borough Council.... Blackpool was the only town in Britain that retained its trams. Between 1962 and 1989, Blackpool had the only urban tramway in the UK', until new urban tram systems began to open in Manchester, Croydon, etc. 'Blackpool is notable today as one of the three surviving non-heritage tramways to use double-deck trams, the others being in Hong Kong and Alexandria, Egypt.... The Blackpool tram fleet is diverse. Some of the 1930s trams are still in regular service in virtually unchanged condition; others have had their bodywork rebuilt. Occasionally, historic trams are borrowed from the National Tramway Museum for public service.'
For more information, click the tram
The Blackpool Illuminations website claims, 'At 10 kilometres long and using over one million bulbs the Blackpool Illuminations are an awesome spectacle. The Blackpool Illuminations consist of almost every kind of light display you can imagine: lasers, neon, light bulbs, fibre optics, searchlights and floodlighting. In 2005 there were more than 500 scenic designs and features. There are set pieces made out of wood studded with light bulbs: the characters and objects portrayed seem to “move†by way of winking lights. Three-dimensional illuminated scenes are also popular. There are over 500 road features attached to lamp posts linked together with festoon lighting. Strings of lights along the structure of buildings pick out landmarks in luminous detail – you can always make out the Tower and the Pleasure Beach rides in this way. All the hotels on the east side of the Promenade are floodlit in colour sequence. Even the trams on which you can tour the lights are illuminated and decorated with specific themes. There has been a Wild West tram, a Space Rocket and the Trawler. Take a tram for a grandstand view – arguably the best way to see this electrical extravaganza.'
I used to ride on the trams from the late 1950s when we used to visit a great-aunt in Knott-End-on-Sea. We'd get a small ferry across the mouth of the River Wyre, and catch the tram at Fleetwood to travel to Blackpool. It's the 'only surviving first-generation tramway in Britain, dating back to 1885, and serving... Blackpool and its suburbs. It is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world. The tramway is run by Blackpool Transport, who are owned by Blackpool Borough Council.... Blackpool was the only town in Britain that retained its trams. Between 1962 and 1989, Blackpool had the only urban tramway in the UK', until new urban tram systems began to open in Manchester, Croydon, etc. 'Blackpool is notable today as one of the three surviving non-heritage tramways to use double-deck trams, the others being in Hong Kong and Alexandria, Egypt.... The Blackpool tram fleet is diverse. Some of the 1930s trams are still in regular service in virtually unchanged condition; others have had their bodywork rebuilt. Occasionally, historic trams are borrowed from the National Tramway Museum for public service.'
For more information, click the tram
