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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.
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 Pere Marquette is a passenger train in the United States, 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 ]
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 ...
The North Pole Express offers six different classes of service, ranging from vintage coach to historical caboose.
The Pere Marquette passing a farm south of Holland on the old Pere Marquette Railway, now CSX. The tracks used were originally part of the Pennsylvania Railroad , New York Central Railroad , Grand Trunk Railway and Pere Marquette Railway systems, and are now owned by CSX , Norfolk Southern , the Canadian National Railway , Conrail and Amtrak.
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.
The Chesapeake and Ohio's Pere Marquette, near Gary, Ind. on November 26, 1965. The C&O applied the Pere Marquette name to the Chicago trains in 1965. [8] At Amtrak's inception there was a single round-trip between Chicago and Grand Rapids, two between Grand Rapids and Detroit, and a connecting train between Holland, Michigan and Muskegon ...