Santa Claus Express 2010
by Mike Condren
Dec. 12, 2010
| The Santa Train was parked around the south leg of the wye, with the F-units at the east end of the wye in the trees. |
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| Here we see the crew preparing to back the Santa Train from the wye, first onto the passing track, and then the mainline. After these pictures, I discovered that my camera battery was dead! Fortunately I had two spares in the car and quickly changed the battery. |
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| After changing the battery, I then had to content with something new, sun blinding me, coming in around the camera making it very hard to see what I was shooting. |
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| After backing to the south end of the passing track, the train is now heading north on the mainline to stop with the last 6 cars parked at the yard office which once was CTC office. The two-story wooden station stood just south of that building. |
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| The last 6-cars were spotted at the old station platform. |  |
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| The "business train" uncoupled from the Santa Train and pulled north to the fuel dock. |
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| Here we see the "business train" sitting at the fuel dock. |
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Dec. 13, 2010
| After arriving at the station at Stilwell, we walked over to the crosswalk and waited to cross. |
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| The reindeer flat car this day has a G-scale train running around under the flying reindeer. |
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| The "business train" was uncoupled from the "Santa Train" and pulled north. |
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| We then got in line to tour the inside of the train. In the Santa caboose of course was Santa and Mrs. Claus. |
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| In the green caboose there was an HO scale model on the floor in the cupola area with a walkway over it. I do not know what caused the brown area in the center of the picture. |
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| This panel lists the corporate sponsors. |
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| The last picture in Stilwell was taken from the car on US59 showing the lights on the Santa Train. |
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