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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.
French Lick was originally a French trading post built near a spring and salt lick. A fortified ranger post was established near the springs in 1811. On Johnson's 1837 map of Indiana, the community was known as Salt Spring. The town was founded in 1857. [4] French Lick's post office has been in operation since 1847. [5]
The Indiana Railway Museum was founded in 1961 in the Decatur County town of Westport with one locomotive and three passenger cars. The museum relocated to Greensburg and then in 1978 to French Lick after the Southern Railway deeded a total of sixteen miles of right of way stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the ...
French Lick, Indiana is Larry Bird's hometown. The city has plenty of Bird-related travel attractions.
Pere Marquette 1225 passing through with the "Polar Express" lettering in 2004. On November 30, 1985, the engine was restored and moved again under its own power for the first time since its retirement in 1951. [1] [11] The first excursion service occurred in 1988 on a 17-mile trip between Owosso and St. Charles, Michigan.
When is the Polar Express Train Ride? The Polar Express Train Ride runs Nov. 7-Dec. 31. Three rides are available each day at 5 p.m., 6:40 p.m. and 8:20 p.m.
The Dubois County Railroad (reporting mark DCRR) is a Class III short-line railroad serving Dubois County in southern Indiana, United States, and is a for-profit subsidiary of the Indiana Railway Museum, now better known as the French Lick Scenic Railway.
Performers dressed as chefs dance and sing "Hot Chocolate" before serving refreshments to passengers on Oklahoma City's "The Polar Express Train Ride," produced by Rail Events Productions ...