Virginia’s Legendary Santa Trains by Donna Strother Deekens & Doug Riddell

Item: Book

Title: Virginia’s Legendary Santa Trains

Author: Donna Strother Deekens & Doug Riddell

Copyright 2013 
Published by The History Press

Beginning in the 1950's, department stores around the Commonwealth [of Virginia] teamed up with rail lines to create a magical Christmas adventure: the Santa Train. Delight-filled children from Richmond and Alexandria to Roanoke flocked to see and ride the trains sponsored by Miller & Rhoads, Cox's Department Store, J.C. Penney and many others. These majestic trains rode the rails across Virginia with old Saint Nick himself. Join railroad author Doug Riddell and former Miller & Rhoads Snow Queen Donna Strother Deekens as they recount heartwarming memories of Christmases past and chronicle the history of Virginia's Kris Kringle trains.