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"A second Polar Express line is likely coming to Northern California next year to join the popular route that has been running out of Old Sacramento for the past seven years.The California State Railroad Museum Foundation, which operates the Old Sacramento route, said Thursday it is finalizing an agreement to run a similar operation in Tuolumne County.Kathy Daigle, executive director of the nonprofit, told KCRA 3 the train would operate next fall out of the Railtown 1897 Museum and the exact dates were still being determined.Based on a popular children's book and a 2004 Warner Bros. movie, there are 40 Polar Express operations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.The foundation has operated the Old Sacramento route for the past seven years.All of the routes are licensed by Colorado-based Rail Events, Inc.Allen Harper, CEO of Rail Events, said Sacramento's route carried 18,000 passengers last year, placing it within the top third of its most popular lines.Members of the California State Railroad Museum get first crack at the tickets each year, but the general-public tickets for all 18 dates generally sell out within hours.Two of Wednesday evening's departures had to be canceled after a generator that powers the interiors of the passenger cars malfunctioned.Daigle said about 200 passengers were on board the 6:30 p.m. train when the lights went out.\"Without the generator operating, there wouldn't have been any lights on, there wouldn't have been any sound system,\" Daigle said. \"And that's all part of the magic of the train ride.\"After about 30 minutes of trying to repair the generator, crew members told passengers to unload.\"A little disappointing, but overall, I think everyone took it well and said there's just nothing you can do about it,\" said Bryan Srbian, who was on board with his two young sons.By late Thursday morning, the generator had been repaired and the trips resumed as scheduled.Daigle said passengers on the canceled trips would be offered refunds or replacement rides next Tuesday.She said that so far only two or three families had requested refunds."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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