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The Polar Express Train Ride: Nov. 10-Dec. 16. This train journey recreates the classic children's book. Enjoy hot chocolate, dancing chefs, a reading of the book, and a visit from Santa and his ...
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The Indiana Railway Museum was founded in 1961 in the Decatur County town of Westport with one locomotive and three passenger cars. The museum relocated to Greensburg and then in 1978 to French Lick after the Southern Railway deeded a total of sixteen miles of right of way stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the ...
The Polar Express Train Ride runs Nov. 7-Dec. 31. ... tickets cost $44, child (ages 2-12) tickets cost $29 and infant (0-23 months) tickets are free. Features windows that can open for fresh air ...
The Fair Train was the museum's biggest yearly event with ITM passenger trains transporting as many as 16,000 people to the Indiana State Fair daily, with ten daily round trips each day of the fair during August. [31] The Polar Bear Express was held in the months of November and December. It included a train ride and a visit from Santa Claus.
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 ...
Tickets for the North Pole Express, based in Owosso, go on sale on July 25. The express is an annual holiday tradition inspired by the 2004 film, “Polar Express,” which turns 20 this year.
The train in the 2004 film The Polar Express was modeled after steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225. The film also included audio recordings of the locomotive in operation. [5] It is the locomotive that Chris Van Allsburg said was the inspiration for the book, having seen it as a child when it was on the Michigan State University campus. The ...