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The Pere Marquette Railway used No. 1225 in regular service from the locomotive's construction in 1941 until the railroad merged into Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1947; It remained in use on C&O's Michigan lines until 1951. Avoiding the scrapyard, No. 1225 was acquired by the Michigan State University in 1957 and put on static display.
The Pere Marquette is a passenger train operated by Amtrak as part of its Michigan Services on the 176-mile (283 km) route between Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois. It is funded in part by the Michigan Department of Transportation and is train 370 eastbound and train 371 westbound. [ 4 ]
In August 1991, 765 was paired with the recently restored Pere Marquette No. 1225 for that year’s National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) convention in Huntington, West Virginia. [7] No. 765 ran side-by-side with No. 1225 while pulling twenty-five CSX hopper cars on the CSX mainline between Huntington and St. Albans.
The train institute in Owosso is home to the Pere Marquette 1225, a famous train used as "The Polar Express." The steam locomotive is making another film appearance as a central character in ...
The express is led by the historic locomotive, Pere Marquette 1225, which was used as the blueprint for the Polar Express train in the film and has been shuffling folks through the snow every ...
The company continued to operate separately as the Pere Marquette Railway until being fully merged into the C&O on June 6, 1947. Forty years later, the C&O was absorbed into CSX Transportation. In 1984, Amtrak named its passenger train between Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Pere Marquette. [4] The train in the 2004 film The Polar ...
At that time, No. 611's original whistle was on loan to the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan, where it was temporarily used on the Pere Marquette 1225 steam locomotive. [119] On May 8, 2010, No. 611 was put on temporary display in front of the former N&W Roanoke passenger station, now known as the O. Winston Link Museum for ...
Pere Marquette Automobile car #72332; Wabash Boxcars (later Ann Arbor X4633 and X4646) A couple flat cars. Maintenance of Way: Rock Island #5000-series tender/ Auxiliary Tender #5000. Former Rock Island 4-8-4 5000 series locomotive tender now used for longer excursions behind PM 1225. Pere Marquette #361. Former Troop Sleeper. Now 1225's tool car.