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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 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.
In the motion picture The Polar Express, the "know-it-all" boy identifies the train's locomotive as "a Baldwin 2-8-4 S-3 class" built in 1931, although the actual prototype for the film's locomotive was the Pere Marquette 1225, a Berkshire built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1941.
Two-year-old Oliver Crofoot is facinated by the steam produced by the Pere Marquette 1225 steam engine as it idles in the Village of Ashley Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015.
The K-4s were reproduced from the AMC's previous designs for the Nickel Plate Road's (NKP) 700 series 2-8-4s and the Pere Marquette Railway's (PM) 1200 series 2-8-4s, but the K-4s were equipped with boosters to increase their tractive effort, and their steam domes were positioned behind their sandboxes. [2]
Pere Marquette 1223; Pere Marquette 1225; S. South African Class 24 2-8-4; Soviet locomotive class IS This page was last edited on 5 December 2020, at 13:49 (UTC). ...
The North Pole Express offers six different classes of service, ranging from vintage coach to historical caboose.
Pere Marquette 1223; Pere Marquette 1225; S. Shay Locomotive (Cadillac, Michigan) This page was last edited on 31 March 2024, at 17:32 (UTC). Text is available ...
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 ...