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The Polar Express (soundtrack) Spirit of the Season; V. The Polar Express (video game)
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 ...
For many families — including my husband, Patrick, and our children, Gabe, 15; Brenna, 12; and Kyla — boarding "The Polar Express" Train Ride has become a treasured holiday tradition, and we ...
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.
Tickets for the Polar Express range from $49 to $109, depending on the class, with children three and under riding for $5 with a paying adult. There are three classes of service – standard class ...
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 ...
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 ...
Polar Express. The Polar Express is a very popular animated movie based on a book of the same name. The film, which stars Tom Hanks and was released in October 2004, tells the story of a young boy ...