Q: The promotional train from A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey went from city to city, promoting the film. What a great movie! It’s one of our regulars that we watch during the holidays. Anyway, the train was something else! It was all decorated with Christmas holiday vinyl wraps from the engine to the caboose. It was a sight to see. Inside the rail cars were props from the movie and artifacts from Charles Dickens and even snow falling from the sky! My question: Where is it? Is it in a big warehouse somewhere? Is it all taken apart? What happened to it after the tour? I think people would like to see it at Christmas time.
Larry, Sonoma, California
A: The Amtrak train, known as Amtrak GE P42 #156, pulled by two locomotives, was fitted out with exterior decorations and displays inside the cars, to help promote the film in 2009. Amtrak and Hewlett-Packard helped sponsor the train. At the completion of the tour, the Christmas Carol elements were removed from the train, and it was returned to regular service. In 2011, in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Amtrak, the same train’s locomotives were repainted in an anniversary scheme.