I once again am posting this a bit late, it will have gone through some communities already but the CP Holiday Train is out and about again this year, asking for food donations:
http://www.cpr.ca/holiday-train/canada
Canadian Schedule:
http://www.cpr.ca/holiday-train/schedule-canada
American Schedule: [you need to go to each state show at the bottom to get the dates]
Thanks for posting. The CP Holiday Train is a colorful and exciting sight to see. One of the first sounds you hear when it is en route at speed is the sound of the flags flapping in the wind - very unusual!
By the way last year I was railfanning in Nahant Yard near Davenport and found a CP engine that looked like it had been riddled with machine gun fire. Only when I studied the patterns did it become clear that that locomotive had seen prior service on the Holiday Train and what I was seeing was where the LEDs had been mounted to form stars, angels, etc., and the entire outline of the locomotive.
Dave Nelson