Headliners this year: Tenille Townes, Breland
WINONA, Minn. – The Canadian Pacific railroad’s annual holiday train will roll clickety-clack into Winona for a trackside concert at the old Milwaukee Road depot on Saturday at 3:45 p.m. – a revised date and time since the original plan announced in October. Then onto Wabasha. Performing from the boxcar stage will be Canadian country singer Tenille Townes. With her will be the deep, gruff baritone Breland, who goes by the single name. Another change: Although “Canadian Pacific” is prominent as always in the train’s electric decorations, the railroad’s new name “SPKC” has been squeezed into the display to reflect the recent acquisition of the Kansas City Southern rairoad and a through route to the Gulf Coast. In reality, there now are two holiday trains with different itineraries s and schedules through the new 19,000-mile CPKC system.
Depot concert. Winona among Wisconsin and Minnesota stops Yes, Santa promised to be aboard.
Good causes
During each stop, the railroad makes a donation to a local food bank and encourages guests to do the same. Since its inception in 1999, the Holiday Train has raised $22.4 million and 5.2 million pounds of food for community food banks.