The annual Santa Train will run from Pikeville, Ky., to Kingsport, Tenn., on Saturday, Nov. 17, and will feature Grammy award-winning country singer Patty Loveless. This is the 65th year for the CSX Transportation train, which this year will distribute 15 tons of toys and other gifts in eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee. Loveless, a native of Pikeville, received gifts from the train as a child. She was the train's celebrity guest in 1999 and 2002, and wrote a song, "Santa Train," that was part of her Bluegrass, White Snow: A Mountain Christmas album in 2002. Besides CSX, other major sponsors of Santa Train are the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce and K-VA-T Food Stores of Abingdon, Va., which does business as Food City. Journalists interested in riding the train should e-mail Mandy Cawood at mcawood@mpf.com.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Patty Loveless rides the Santa Train through her native Central Appalachia this Saturday
The annual Santa Train will run from Pikeville, Ky., to Kingsport, Tenn., on Saturday, Nov. 17, and will feature Grammy award-winning country singer Patty Loveless. This is the 65th year for the CSX Transportation train, which this year will distribute 15 tons of toys and other gifts in eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee. Loveless, a native of Pikeville, received gifts from the train as a child. She was the train's celebrity guest in 1999 and 2002, and wrote a song, "Santa Train," that was part of her Bluegrass, White Snow: A Mountain Christmas album in 2002. Besides CSX, other major sponsors of Santa Train are the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce and K-VA-T Food Stores of Abingdon, Va., which does business as Food City. Journalists interested in riding the train should e-mail Mandy Cawood at mcawood@mpf.com.
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