Skule Gravy Train (2010)
The Skule Gravy Train was a tasteful prank that was also a Skule organized food drive, on Dec, 5th 2010 a large train was constructed to hold food and was placed at City Hall. The Gravy Train was also a piece of political satire as Rob Ford (newly elected Mayor of Toronto) used the phrase "Stop the gravy train" in his campaign and a manikin of Rob Ford was made holding Stop sign and was placed next to the train. However the group of students constructing the train were caught by security shortly after it was finished and the train had to be removed and rebuilt on campus.
Planning and Prep-Work
Shortly after Rob Ford was elected Mayor, the Brute Force Committee along with the Skule Community Outreach director hatched a plan to create a Gravy Train that would act as a food drive for the less fortunate. The idea came from Rob Ford's mayoral campaign to "Stop the Gravy Train", as a joke the engineering students decided to use the gravy train as a joke and place the train at City Hall, as it would increase the foot traffic around th food drive. The week leading up to the 5th the gravy train was constructed in the Sandford Fleming Atrium, the train was approx 24feet long and approx 8 feet tall. As well a very fat manikin was made of Rob Ford holding a stop sign as a joke to his campaign quote.
Transportation and Instillation
As the train was completely the problem of transporting the train to City Hall arouse. Instead of the original plan of simply carrying it, a few student acquired two pick up trucks and cars and the train was transported section at time and in under 2 hours the train was all at City Hall with a large group of students working on assembling it.