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The hobo, left, and the Hero Child talk on Oklahoma City's "The Polar Express Train Ride," produced by Rail Events Productions, on Nov. 10, 2022, at the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at what keeps "The Polar Express Train Ride" chugging in OKC. It runs through Dec. 27 at the Oklahoma Railway Museum.
Merrymakers have the chance to board "The Polar Express" through Dec. 28 at the OKC museum. Here's what you need to know. 'Polar Express' Train Ride chugs back to OKC after it was derailed by COVID-19
The Eastern Flyer was a proposed medium distance inter-city train traveling between Oklahoma City in central Oklahoma and Tulsa in north-eastern Oklahoma. It was originally planned to be a private operation by the Iowa Pacific Railroad, and its services were to have included a dome car, coaches and full meal service.
The museum operates four diesel locomotives and has a full assortment of railcars.Actual train rides are done every first and third Saturday of each month from April to September, typically at 9:15 am, 11:15 am, 1:15 pm and 3:15 pm. [2] Special annual events also occur, such as the Halloween Train, the Easter Express, and the Polar Express around Christmastime.
The film has also spawned multiple real-world holiday train-travel experiences based loosely on the film's train journey all over the United States, as well as Canada, and even the United Kingdom under license from Rail Events Inc. [33] These include the Polar Express train rides held at the Grand Canyon Railway, [34] [35] Great Smoky Mountains ...
'The Polar Express Train Ride' When: Through Dec. 29. ... The Oklahoma City Thunder Girls, Drummers and Storm Chasers will be on-site to entertain the community alongside the Thunder Bolt Bus.
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 ...