The Christmas Day myth seems to have arisen after the publication of the book, "Polar Express". It had nothing to do with the number representing Christmas Day. 1225 was the last engine in the line, i.e. Eventually, the Michigan State Trust for Railway Preservation, operating at the Steam Railway Institute, decided to remove these. Lighted number boards were added as was the standard for C&O engines, though the Pere Marquette Railway never used them. The C&O then instructed the yardmaster at New Buffalo to send an engine to the Wyoming Shops for a cosmetic restoration and repainting with the name Chesapeake and Ohio on the side. Rollin Baker, director of the MSU Museum and told him that he was getting a locomotive. When he told the Dean of the College of Engineering about the gift, the Dean said that Engineering was not interested in an obsolete locomotive. John Hannah accepted the gift of the locomotive. Forest Akers thought it was a good idea and proposed the idea to University President John Hannah. In 1955, Michigan State University Trustee, Forest Akers, the former VP of Dodge Motors, was asked by C&O Chairman Cyrus Eaton if the University would be interested in having a steam locomotive (Eaton did not want to scrap the engines but was having a hard time finding places that would accept them) so that engineering students would have a piece of real equipment to study. Retired from service in 1951, 1225 was sent to scrap, in New Buffalo, Michigan. The majority of the class N locomotives were scrapped between 19, but class N-1s 12 were both preserved.įor the first part of its service life, 1225 was used to shuttle steel and wartime freight between Detroit, Saginaw, Flint and northern Indiana steel mills. Although all the Berkshires received new numbers, only class N engines were repainted into standard C&O livery and renumbered. Part of the merger agreement, however, included the stipulation that locomotives that were acquired and fully paid for by PM would remain painted for PM after the merger. The locomotives remained on the roster through the PM's merger into Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1947 class N locomotives were renumbered to 2685–2699, class N-1 to 2650–2661, and class N-2 to 2670–2681. The locomotive, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is now used on excursion trains over the former Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway, now Great Lakes Central Railroad. 1225 to operational status, an effort that culminated in its first excursion run in 1988. Slated for scrapping, 1225 was acquired by Michigan State University in 1957 and placed on static display. 1225 in regular service from the locomotive's construction in 1941 until the railroad merged into Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1947 it remained in use on C&O's Michigan lines until 1951. It is perhaps most famous for serving as the basis for the locomotive in the 2004 film, The Polar Express. 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 (GTW) coaling tower, in Grand Haven, Michigan. Pere Marquette 1225 is a class "N-1" 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive built in October 1941 for the Pere Marquette Railway (PM) by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio.
Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 420: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). 1225 on an excursion in 2008Ĥ ft 8 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gaugeġ short ton (0.89 long tons) of coal per 12 miles traveled (1 metric ton per 21 km)
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