New York City and Detroit now have to compete with the Porcupine Valley for the best Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade had been in the planning stages for a whole year after Toivo and Eino Maki watched the other parades on television, first time ever broadcast on WPV-TV. Not having a lot of resources on hand in the valley, the brothers looked to connect with a major circus company, that traveled by train, offering a stop over on their way down south for the winter. This gave the circus company a great five day event and provided the guys not only a great circus but a massive parade lead by a 91 piece marching band. The mounted police unit was really the security force from the circus, the Budweiser trucks that lead Santa himself, just happened to be in the area passing through and were happy to join the parade, following the Porcupine Valley fire trucks and police car.

When the circus train arrived into the switching yard, the exchange point from standard gauge to narrow gauge PVRR operation, that filled to every available foot of track. Fortunately this yard was right next to the level area, that was completed earlier, for the future airport. The Porcupine Valley Road Commission was able to get the road black topped in time to be used as the stagging area for the parade and after the parade, for people to get to the circus for the five day run, before they packed up on Sunday evening and continued their trip south.