The CP Holiday Train will make its way to the downtown train station in Greater Sudbury on Nov. 29.
Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter Colin James and Toronto-born singer-songwriter Emma-Lee will be performing during the stop in Sudbury. It's expect to roll into the Nickel City around 8:50 p.m.
Since 1999, the Holiday Train has raised more than CAD $13 million and 4 million pounds of food for North American food banks. Anything raised in a community stays in that community. In addition, CP makes donations at each stop.
While the event is free to the public, they ask that you bring food or a monetary donation that will go to the Sudbury Food Bank.
“The program is an important community initiative for CP employees as more than 12,000 of us live and work in the more than 1,100 North American communities,” said CP on its website for the Holiday Train. “Hunger is an issue that can, and does, impact all of our neighbours.
“The Holiday Train program has a gained a tremendous following in the close to two decades that it's been running. The Holiday Train shines a bright light on the importance of supporting food banks. In some places the Holiday Train program can raise the majority of money a food bank requires for the year.”
Did you know:
The Holiday Train is about 1,000 feet in length with 14 brightly decorated rail cars. Each car is decorated with hundreds of thousands of technology-leading LED lights and holiday designs.
Built originally in 1957, two GP20C 2200 series were rebuilt in 2013 to pull CP's two Holiday Trains. Each locomotive has 2,000hp, is 56.02 feet in length and weighs 275,000 pounds.
