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## Video: 'Santa Claus Special' Train Comes to Appalachia

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_Published 2012-12-20. For 69 years, the Santa Train has been handing out toys to children living in the Appalachia coal fields_


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## Transcript

[ NOISE ] Choo choo train. Oh, I see ho, ho. Look, look on the bench. Who is that? Ho ho. Ho ho. Yes. Wave to ho ho. [ NOISE ] It's the start of the holiday season. It's, it's a wonderful position. And it's always been an important part of Christmas to my kids. Not for the gifts, but just the excitement of the train and Santa Claus. [ NOISE ]. We've waited in snow, rain, it didn't matter. Every how many it's been, we, we've seen most of it. I've seen em all. Well, yeah, we've seen the train go by but we wasn't at the railroad track [ LAUGH ]. [ NOISE ] So it's just our history. We grew up with it.

Our father introduced it to me. I introduced it to my children. I'm introducing it to my grandchildren. And that's just part of us. [ NOISE ] People think that the train is these poor hillbillies we got. You know, this is their only Christmas. This is all they get. But that's not true. And that's why the train starts. [ NOISE ] And when the train was started, it was started as a way to say thank you to the people of [ INAUDIBLE ] because at that time, there were no big shopping centers, major shopping stores in [ INAUDIBLE ] and everybody would go to the tri cities to shop. So it was a way for the cross cities merchants to say thank you to the people of this area for their business.

[ SOUND ] [ LAUGH ] Is that your gift? [ SOUND ] [ NOISE ] Santa! [ CROSSTALK ] Santa! Santa! Santa! Oh, I brought my son 42 years ago. [ NOISE ] It's when I started coming to the time. And now I'm here with my grandkids. And I will continue to come as long as I'm around. As long as I'm able. [ LAUGH ]. [ NOISE [ SOUND ] Merry Christmas [ CROSSTALK ]

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