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Workers  install a display monitor in the digital portrait gallery aboard Disney's A Christmas Carol Train, a six-car  passenger train pulled by two engines. The gallery gives visitors a glimpse at the development and design of such familiar characters as Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmases, Past Present and Future. The Train Tour kicks off Memorial Day weekend at Union Station in Los Angeles, traveling across the country with whistle-stops in 40 cities. The tour ends at Grand Central  Terminal in New York the last weekend of October.
Workers install a display monitor in the digital portrait gallery aboard Disney's A Christmas Carol Train, a six-car passenger train pulled by two engines. The gallery gives visitors a glimpse at the development and design of such familiar characters as Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmases, Past Present and Future. The Train Tour kicks off Memorial Day weekend at Union Station in Los Angeles, traveling across the country with whistle-stops in 40 cities. The tour ends at Grand Central Terminal in New York the last weekend of October.
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