 Right now at Appalachian Wireless, you can get the Samsung Galaxy S7 for just $99.99 and get a second one free! Service agreement is required on both devices, serving you for the last 25 years with better service and bigger savings. At today's Appalachian Wireless. This past weekend for the 74th time, the CSX Santa train made its annual trek through Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee. The CSX rail line between Pikeville and Kingsport, Tennessee was lined with hundreds of people waiting to see Santa for the first time this season. The jolly head elf perched on the rear of his railroad sled, which buzzed with activity moving toys and gifts to the rear of the train. So what does it take to move 15 tons of toys and gifts off of the train? A bunch of volunteers and a lot of precision. Inside the Santa train and out of the view of the general public, dozens of volunteers worked tirelessly to prepare toys, food and clothing to be dispensed to the crowds at each of the Santa trains 13 stops. With the massive effort that the annual trip has become, without those volunteers, there would be no Santa train. There's no way that there could be a budget put together that could pay for this train. And most of these volunteers will never be seen by these people that are out to see the train, right? Absolutely. They're behind the scenes. We've got people in the local tri-cities and all over the world that make stuff all year long and send it in so that these people along the tracks can have a nice warm scarf to put around or a blanket or something like that. And for the volunteers on the train, it can be an emotional experience. My son and I have chased this train for probably close to 15 years and we've got a different look on it today. I'm not worried about the rails or the train. It's good. The spirit of giving and the work of the trains volunteers was not lost on this year's celebrity guest writer, country musician Daryl Worley. To be able to fling tons of toys out to these children, if that's not God's work at Christmas time, I don't know what it is. And Santa himself said the Santa trains volunteers, those on the train, and dozens more who don't get to ride the train but work to make the Santa train happen every year will definitely make the nice list. So when we talk about volunteers, nobody gets paid to do that. It's our blessing. And Lord's blessed us and we're giving it back. The Santa train is sponsored by CSX, the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce, Food City, and Dignity You Wear. That's a wrap on the 74th Santa train, but there's already talk and already discussions about the 75th. Reporting from the Santa train for EKB News, I'm Chris Anderson.