Western Railroad Discussion > CP Holiday Train at Kansas City Union Station

This evening, I took off to Kansas City Union Station to photograph the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train that came in behind the CP 2246. This was my first time seeing this train, and it was really quite impressive! If you ever get a chance to see it, make sure to find a way to do so. Thanks to everyone at CP for helping to make this happen!

- Jeff Carlson

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Thank you for sharing ...

A really nice image ... CP's train appears to be
a class act ... wonder why the US Class 1's can't
share a little Christmas Joy in such a fashion?

You definitely have the night shoot under control!

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

Awesome shot!

Well done!

Bob

Posted from Android

Oh, how nice! === === = === JLH

Wow awesome shot!!

Ronda Thomas

Most excellent! CP has done a great job with this tradition. Despite the rain on Sunday, there were good crowds at the Illinois stops and plenty of civilian onlookers at each of the places I stopped to take photos.

I'll post later but caught it in Ottumwa yesterday. Nice crowd there.

Nice shot there Jeff.

MILW86A

Great shot of a Great Train. I wish CP and NS could find a way to work together to bring that train
back to Scranton, Pa next year. It would be great to see it again.
Tim McRea

Fantastic shot!

Wow, the CP went the extra mile on this! Very impressive. Good shooting, Jeff. It's good to see the Western Auto sign back among the living...

Lance/199

Candidate for IOTD for sure. Outstanding work Jeff!

BB

NIICE..!!

Jeff

Great shot of a neat train in a classic KC location.

Congrats!

Jeff N
Olathe

Yes they certainly appear to be...unless you’ve worked for them.

Odyssey Wrote:
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> Thank you for sharing ...
>
> A really nice image ... CP's train appears to be
> a class act ... wonder why the US Class 1's can't
> share a little Christmas Joy in such a fashion?
>
> You definitely have the night shoot under
> control!
>
> Odyssey
> Evergreen, CO

Posted from iPhone

Way to go CP!! That's a lot of work. Many RR's do a couple of cars and an engine, but I can't even see the entire train. Nice job.

What kind of tour does it do? Local stops, just runs around, just wondering. 

Mike ONeill
Parker, CO

What do you mean?  ;-)  KCS runs Rudy up and down the line every year!

- Jeff

Odyssey Wrote:
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> Thank you for sharing ...
>
> A really nice image ... CP's train appears to be
> a class act ... wonder why the US Class 1's can't
> share a little Christmas Joy in such a fashion?
>
> You definitely have the night shoot under
> control!
>
> Odyssey
> Evergreen, CO

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As far as I know, they've got two trains running; one in the US, and one in Canada.  You can see the schedule here: https://www.cpr.ca/holiday-train/schedule-united-states

- Jeff

mcdeo Wrote:
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> Way to go CP!! That's a lot of work. Many RR's do
> a couple of cars and an engine, but I can't even
> see the entire train. Nice job.
>
> What kind of tour does it do? Local stops, just
> runs around, just wondering. 

Thanks to everyone for all of the kind words on this one!  It was rather chilly up there, but I'd say that the results were well worth it.

Lance, regarding the sign, I completely agree!  It was so sad to take night shots there the last few years while it was dark.  That thing is such a nice photo prop, and a Kansas City icon.

- Jeff Carlson

santafe199 Wrote:
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> Wow, the CP went the extra mile on this! Very
> impressive. Good shooting, Jeff. It's good to see
> the Western Auto sign back among the living...
>
> Lance/199

Beautiful shot!  Congrats on IOTD.
GK