450 Tons of Family Fun - Metrolink's Holiday Toy Express

Metrolink’s Holiday Toy Express has been delighting audiences for thirteen years – providing a free, enjoyable, community-based holiday experience across five Southern California counties.


The Holiday Toy Express, a 450-ton Metrolink train decorated with giant glittering ornaments, animated displays and more than 50,000 twinkling lights, will make four stops in the City of Los Angeles:

Sunday, November 22, 2009

• 6:00PM at the Chatsworth Metrolink Station
• 7:00PM at the Northridge Metrolink Station
• 8:15PM at the Van Nuys Metrolink Station

Friday, December 4, 2009

• 8:30PM at the Sylmar/San Fernando Metrolink Station

Arriving with lights aglow and filling the night with toe-tapping tunes, the Holiday Toy Express offers a free live musical stage show at each stop. Following the show, children of all ages have an opportunity to meet Santa and his friends when they alight from the train. Additionally, the Holiday Toy Express supports Southern California Firefighters’ Spark of Love Toy Drive – which collects and distributes toys to needy children.

Audience members are encouraged to bring a new unwrapped toy or sporting good to donate to this worthy cause.

So come enjoy the Holiday Toy Express, meet the men and women of the LAFD and support the Spark of Love Toy Drive, all at a Metrolink Station near you!


Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department