Wrapped train tours Canada for Grey Cup’s centenary
by all | 10 September 2012 9:51 am
Image courtesy CFL
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Canada’s Grey Cup football trophy, a specially wrapped train has begun a cross-country tour, with plans to visit more than 100 communities before arriving in Toronto for this year’s championship game.
Canadian Football League (CFL) commissioner Mark Cohon says it took more than 500 hours to wrap the custom-retrofitted train’s cars and engine with various CFL graphics, including the logos of all eight currently active teams—the BC Lions, Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes.
“We saw what the torch relay did for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, how it brought the country together,” he says. “Now it’s our chance for the Grey Cup to make a pilgrimage across Canada.”
After leaving Vancouver’s Pacific Central Station, the branded train will travel some 4,100 km (2,548 mi) over 10 weeks, making stops not only in the eight CFL cities, but also in Ottawa, Quebec, City, Moncton and Halifax (Ottawa will rejoin the league in 2014 and the other cities might host teams in the future).
The tour is scheduled to wrap up at Toronto’s Exhibition train station on November 17, shortly before the championship game is played at the Rogers Centre on November 25.
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