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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.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's K-4 class were a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives purchased during and shortly after World War II. [1] Unlike many other railroads in the United States, the C&O chose to nickname this class "Kanawha", after the river in West Virginia, rather than "Berkshire", after the region in New England.
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 North Pole Express offers six different classes of service, ranging from vintage coach to historical caboose.
The train in the 2004 film The Polar Express was modeled after steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225. The film also included audio recordings of the locomotive in operation. [ 5 ] It is the locomotive that Chris Van Allsburg said was the inspiration for the book, having seen it as a child when it was on the Michigan State University campus.
Pere Marquette Railway Locomotive No. 1223: 2000 NRHP Grand Haven, MI: MI-02 Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive No. 5: 2005 NRHP Nahma Township, MI: MI-03 Pere Marquette Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1225: 2004 NRHP Owosso, MI: MN-01 Soo Line Locomotive 2719: 4-6-2 "Pacific" type 1923 built by ALCO 2003 NRHP On static display, in Duluth ...
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