#Pere marquette 1225 code
A party kit based on the book shows the zip code for the North Pole to be 00 1225.Most merchandise portray the Polar Express locomotive with the number, even though it is unnumbered in both the book or the film.
The locomotive's number, 1225 is featured in several Polar Express media:.
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Annually since 2004, #1225 has hauled winter weekend excursions in November and December initially as the Polar Express, then as the North Pole Express after the film license expired. The locomotive currently resides in Owosso, Michigan and is one of two surviving members of the N-1 class alongside Pere Marquette 1223. In November 1985, which is also when the book The Polar Express was published, #1225 returned to service and moved under its own power for the first time since 1951. Van Allsburg says he has fond memories of the engine and that he was inspired by its number, which is also the date of Christmas, 12/25. Chris Van Allsburg, a little boy at the time, would play on it while attending football games at the stadium with his father. The locomotive was put on static display near Spartan Stadium in 1957. As a result, a group of students from the university formed the Michigan State University Railroad Club and set a goal to restore #1225 to its former glory. In 1951, #1225 was withdrawn from service and sent for scrap in New Buffalo, Michigan, but the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad gave the locomotive to Michigan State University as a gift because Cyrus Eaton, the chairman of the railroad, did not have the heart to scrap it. The N-1 class locomotives remained in service after Pere Marquette's merger into the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1947. During its first decade in service, it mostly pulled steel and wartime freight. The fascinating story of its journey since then which eventually led to its restoration to tourist train service is told in this Wikipedia article.The Pere Marquette 1225 was built at the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio in 1941 for the Pere Marquette Railway along with eleven other N-1 class locomotives. Recordings of #1225 were used to provide the sounds for the Polar Express locmotive.
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#1225 was the prototype for the locomotive used in the book and movie – Polar Express. In the 19 minute video below, railfans follow the #1225 as it travels to Alma and return. These excursions were pulled by either Nickel Plate Road #765 or the Pere Marquette #1225. One of the many activities were half day trips to Alma, Michigan and return. Last year, during the weekend of June 20th to 22nd, the Steam Railroading Institute of Owosso, Michigan hosted “Train Expo 2014”. Nickel Plate #765 (operated by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society) is also a Lima built Berkshire very similar in appearance and specifications to the Pere Marquette engines.” #1225 is one of two surviving Pere Marquette 2-8-4 locomotives, the other being #1223 which is on display at the Tri-Cities Historical Society near the ex-Grand Trunk Western coaling tower, in Grand Haven, Michigan. “Pere Marquette #1225 is a 2-8-4 (Berkshire) steam locomotive built for Pere Marquette Railway by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. In the 1 minute video above, we again see a drone being used to capture Pere Marquette #1225 as if charges north toward Ashley, Michigan.
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