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Each year, the CTA Holiday train  makes an appearance throughout the city during the month of December.  The CTA first began the tradition in 1992, when employees put a sign on the front of a train that was delivering food to various charities around the city.  The sign simply said, “Seasons Greetings from the CTA.”

On the twentieth anniversary of the holiday train, CTA employees have gone all out. They have been working on the project for more than two months. The eight-car train is decorated completely, inside and out. The outside of the six-car train is adorned with holiday seasonal images. Thousands of twinkling lights outline the shape of the train and windows, with even more lights running across the tops of the cars. Interiors of the cars are decked out with thousands of multi-colored lights, red bows, garland, and red and green overhead lighting. The hand poles are wrapped to look like candy canes

CTA employees will also be delivering holiday baskets across Chicago to a number of different organizations. The baskets are each complete with an entire meal.

The first scheduled run is on Wednesday, December 12^th.  You can also catch the Holiday Train on the red line on Friday the 14^th, Saturday the 15^th, Tuesday the 18^th, and Saturday the 22^nd.   During the week, the train gets going around 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. and on the weekends from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Look for the full schedule here: http://www.transitchicago.com/holidaytrain/#schedule.