Santa really runs diesel-electrics

A rail buff explains at buzz.mn:

It has always bothered me that the Polar Express is pulled by a steam engine. Santa, being one of the earliest tech junkies, dieselised all trains in and out of the Pole in 1939. The suppiles have to come from somewhere, you know, and they have to get to the pole in some manner. The Polar Express of the era protarayed in the movie shouls have been puled by an A-B-B-A set of General Motors Electro Motive Division F-7 locomotives.

"Scott the badger" continues...

If you want to see what the current diesels on that line look like, go to the Canadian Pacific website, and look up the Holiday Train...

Here you go...
If you're near LaCrosse, Wisconsin, or in Minnesota or North Dakota, you've still got a chance to see it. I wonder if they run with all the lights on.

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