Snoopy lumbered out of the train. Lucy momentarily got her big head stuck as she tried to exit. So did Charlie Brown. Linus left the train without his security blanket.
The Peanuts gang then trooped up the steps onto a platform at Knott's Berry Farm's Ghost Town and joined Santa Claus and the Salvation Army on Friday to help launch a fund-raising campaign for Orange County's needy families.
Unlike the Peanuts and Santa Claus characters, Salvation Army volunteers will be doing all the work this season seeking donations.
For the 111th year in the county, the Salvation Army will be setting up those familiar red pails in front of stores during the holidays to collect money for food, clothing and medicine for low-income families.
The annual tradition started in San Francisco, where a Salvation Army captain yanked a massive cooking kettle out of his fireplace and stood on a street corner to solicit more donations for his organization, said Lee Lescano, the Salvation Army's Orange County coordinator.
