Friday, November 19, 2010

 

Santa Train Makes 68th Run

KENTUCKY...
Making its 68th run, the Santa Train left around 6:30 A.M. Saturday morning from Shelbiana in Pike County, Kentucky, on its way through Virginia back home to Kingsport, Tennessee where Chamber of Commerce employees organize the train every year. The train, which was started by the Kingsport Merchants Bureau Fund in 1943, is billed as the country's longest Christmas parade.

On Wednesday, around 200 people gathered outside the Food City in Kingsport to stuff boxes and bags of donated gifts to be distributed. Meanwhile, $200,000 of donations from the Kids Wish Network in Florida were railing their way to Kentucky where CSX employees spent the latter half of the week preparing, decorating and loading the train for its start in Pike County.


# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:59 PM




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