"A Christmas Carol" - Train Tour Update

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17 May 2009

By TNPihl (JCO Editor-In-Chief)

We have got more details about the train tour for "Disney's A Christmas Carol. You can find the schedule below and the first pictures of the train. Walt Disney Pictures has also launched a website for the train tour. Click here.

Featuring four custom-designed vintage rail cars full of behind-the-scenes attractions, entertaining demonstrations, and fun activities, the tour will have its inaugural stop at Los Angeles’ Union Station over Memorial Day Weekend, from May 22nd through May 25th. During the next 24 weeks, the train will make 40 stops in 36 states, as it travels its way across more than 16,000 miles of track. The tour will finish at New York’s Grand Central Terminal over the weekend of October 30th through November 1st.

Jim Carrey has arrived to Cannes today where he will attend the "Disney's A Christmas Carol" press conference tomorrow at 11:30AM at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France. Director Robert Zemeckis and Colin Firth will also be there. Disney will reveal new photos, the first film clip, along with edited highlights and b-roll during the event.

Check Jim Carrey Online over the next days for news from the Cannes Film Festival. We will bring some of the new stuff from the movie.

A Christmas Carol

TRAIN TOUR SCHEDULE

#	Market	Date	Site	City
1	Los Angeles	May 22-25	Los Angeles Union Station	Los Angeles
2	Grand Canyon	May 29-31	Williams Depot	Williams
3	Santa Fe	June 2	Santa Fe Depot	Santa Fe
4	Albuquerque	June 5-7	Albuquerque Amtrak Station	Albuquerque
5	Denver	June 12-14	Denver Union Station	Denver
6	Salt Lake City	June 16	Ogden Union Station	Ogden
7	Sacramento	June 19-21	California State Rail Road Museum	Sacramento
8	San Francisco	June 26-28	Middle Harbor Shoreline Park	Oakland
9	Portland	July 1	Portland Union Station	Portland
10	Seattle	July 3-5	King Street Station	Seattle
11	Spokane	July 7	Spokane Amtrak Station	Spokane
12	Whitefish	July 10-11	Whitefish Amtrak Station	Whitefish
13	Fargo	July 15	North Dakota State University	Fargo
14	St. Paul	July 17-19	Amtrak Midway Station	St. Paul
15	Chicago	July 24-26	Chicago Union Station	Chicago
16	Saint Louis	July 31-August 2	St. Louis Union Station	Saint Louis
17	Memphis	August 4	Memphis Central Station	Memphis
18	New Orleans	August 7-9	Riverview in Audubon Park	New Orleans
19	Houston	August 11	Houston Amtrak Station	Houston
20	San Antonio	August 14-16	San Antonio Amtrak Station	San Antonio
21	Dallas	August 18-19	Dallas Union Station	Dallas
22	Oklahoma City	August 21-23	Oklahoma Santa Fe Depot	Oklahoma City
23	Kansas City	August 25	Kansas City Union Station	Kansas City
24	Omaha	August 28-30	Durham Museum	Omaha
25	Detroit	September 4-6	Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village	Detroit
26	Indianapolis	September 9	Downtown Bargersville	Bargersville
27	Louisville	September 11-13	Louisville Union Station	Louisville
28	Cleveland	September 18-19	Cleveland Brown's Lot	Cleveland
29	Albany	September 22	Albany Rensselaer Rail Station	Rensselaer
30	Boston	September 25-27	South Station	Boston
31	Baltimore	September 30	B & O Railroad Museum	Baltimore
32	Washington	October 2-4	Union Station	Washington
33	Atlanta	October 6	Southeastern Railway Museum	Duluth
34	Spencer	October 9-11	NC Transportation Museum	Spencer
35	Savannah	October 13	Savannah Amtrak Station	Savannah
36	Miami	October 16-18	Gold Coast Railroad Museum	Miami
37	Jacksonville	October 20	Jacksonville Amtrak Station	Jacksonville
38	Charleston	October 23-25	Ansonborough Field	Charleston
39	Philadelphia	October 27	30th Street Station	Philadelphia
40	New York	October 30 - November 1	Grand Central Terminal	New York

PHOTOS OF THE TRAIN

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