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The hobo, left, and the Hero Child talk on Oklahoma City's "The Polar Express Train Ride," produced by Rail Events Productions, on Nov. 10, 2022, at the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at what keeps "The Polar Express Train Ride" chugging in OKC. It runs through Dec. 27 at the Oklahoma Railway Museum.
Merrymakers have the chance to board "The Polar Express" through Dec. 28 at the OKC museum. Here's what you need to know. 'Polar Express' Train Ride chugs back to OKC after it was derailed by COVID-19
The Eastern Flyer was a proposed medium distance inter-city train traveling between Oklahoma City in central Oklahoma and Tulsa in north-eastern Oklahoma. It was originally planned to be a private operation by the Iowa Pacific Railroad, and its services were to have included a dome car, coaches and full meal service.
The museum operates four diesel locomotives and has a full assortment of railcars.Actual train rides are done every first and third Saturday of each month from April to September, typically at 9:15 am, 11:15 am, 1:15 pm and 3:15 pm. [2] Special annual events also occur, such as the Halloween Train, the Easter Express, and the Polar Express around Christmastime.
Van Allsburg based the story on a mental image of a child wandering into the woods on a foggy night and wondering where a train was headed. [4]At the premiere of the film, Van Allsburg stated that Pere Marquette 1225, a 2-8-4 Berkshire N-1 class steam locomotive, formerly owned by the Michigan State University and now owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, was the inspiration for ...
'The Polar Express Train Ride' When: Through Dec. 29. ... The Oklahoma City Thunder Girls, Drummers and Storm Chasers will be on-site to entertain the community alongside the Thunder Bolt Bus.
[30] [31] After numerous test runs, the No. 1309 locomotive finally entered excursion service on December 17, 2021, pulling the annual Polar Express train. [31] On February 25–27, 2022, WMSR and Trains Magazine hosted a private photo charter runby of No. 1309 hauling an 11-car freight train consist over Helmstetter's Curve. [32]