2013 Holiday Train visits Blackie

The brightly lit CP Holiday Train is again making its way across the country, raising spirits and bringing in donations for local food banks.

CP spokeswoman Salem Woodrow says people who come to the local stops are in for a real treat when it comes to entertainment.

"At your stops in Blackie and Vulcan we'll have Jim Cuddy who's travelled with the Holiday Train a few times, is a member of Blue Rodeo, Devin Cuddy, his son and Kelly Prescott," she says. "She's taken numerous trips with us, but on our U.S. rain so this year we're delighted to have her travelling across Canada with us."

In 17 years, Woodrow says, the trains have brought in over than $10.6 million and 3.6-million pounds of food.

"The real focus of the Holiday Trail program is to throw the focus back on the food bank, you know this is a really important time of year where the food banks need as much support as they can get and everything we raise in the community at each of these stops will stay in that community for local distribution."

The train will stop in Blackie at one o'clock on Saturday December 12 and then make a stop in Vulcan at 2:45 p.m. that same day.