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Van Allsburg based the story on a mental image of a child wandering into the woods on a foggy night and wondering where a train was headed. [4]At the premiere of the film, Van Allsburg stated that Pere Marquette 1225, a 2-8-4 Berkshire N-1 class steam locomotive, formerly owned by the Michigan State University and now owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, was the inspiration for ...
The festivities on the Polar Express Train Ride are part of an official Warner Brothers production. On the journey to the North Pole, passengers will enjoy all the magic the movie presents plus a ...
Before the film was released, Bachmann, another major model train manufacturer, also sold a G scale Polar Express train set based on the book. Apart from the paint scheme, this set made no effort to resemble the book illustrations, and used the same 4-6-0 locomotive and open-platform passenger cars as most of Bachmann's other G scale train sets.
No. 1225 was well known to be the basis for the locomotive used in the 2004 film The Polar Express, earning itself the nickname "the real Polar Express". The Pere Marquette used No. 1225 in regular service from the locomotive's construction in 1941 until the railroad merged into the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1947; It remained in use ...
When the Polar Express passes Herpolsheimer's, the kids cheer and rush to the train's windows. This is the first indication of the film's setting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the department ...
A conductor stands in the snow waiting for passengers to board Oklahoma City's "The Polar Express" Train Ride, produced by Rail Events Productions, Nov. 10, 2022.
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Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote, and were later adapted as successful motion pictures.