KCS Holiday Express in Illinois

[Lyon_Wonder]

Last week from Dec 13 through the 15, KCS’s yearly Holiday Expressway train traveled through Illinois, stopping at Roodhouse on the 13th at 5pm, just when the sky turned dark.
http://www.kcsi.com/employee/emp_holiday1.html
Here are several pictures of the Holiday Express train at Roodhouse, taken from my local newspaper. It's too bad that I didn't have the opportunity to personally take pictures of this train, since I wasn't able to make it to the nearest location at Roodhouse. Well, there is always next year.











Model Train layout in the Holiday Express boxcar



Children visit with Santa in the Holiday Express caboose

Finally, here is the Holiday Express at Godfrey, IL, this time showing its ABA set of FP9's at the lead.



http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=127968