Pere Marquette 1225 The Polar Express on its first night run of 2023 from Owosso Michigan to Ashley (The North Pole). After a two year project of reconditioning bearings and axles and a brand new ... (more)

An ex-Amtrak F40PH leads the Polar Express back to Owosso. Originally AMTK 392, the F40PH spent time as a Virginia Railway Express unit, Agence Métropolitaine de Transport, SLC unit leased to the... (more)

First run in almost 2 years for the Pere Marquette 1225 Polar Express train out of Owosso Michigan. Due to Covid they never ran in 2020. Here they Roll North in Elsie Michigan

Pere Marquette 1225 chuffing through Elsie, MI during a Lerro Productions photo charter.

Pere Marquette 1225 at the Carland Elevator in Elsie, MI during a Lerro Productions photo charter. Lighting provided by Lerro Productions.

Northbound PM 1225 in Elsie Michigan over Bear Creek trestle

Northbound PM 1225 in Elsie Michigan

Pere Marquette 1225 storms out of the woods and across a small bridge as it approaches the Riley Road crossing outside Elsie, MI.

In what is thought to be one of the earliest known examples of a "zoom pan", Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. 1225 is captured racing west with a passenger train through rural Michigan. Notes on print s... (more)

Assisting with the war effort, a Pere Marquette Berkshire is pressed into service hauling a troop train, captured here in a Railroad: Pere Marquette
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-4
Location: Elsie, Michigan, USA
Locomotive #: PM 1225
Train ID: Lerro Charter
Photo Date: January 12, 2019

Pere Marquette 1225 at the Carland Elevator in Elsie, MI during a Lerro Productions night photo session.

Pere Marquette 1225 races through Carland into into the night.

Pere Marquette #1225 was built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. This locomotive was the very same engine that the Polar Express movie locomotive was based on. Today the locomoti... (more)

Pere Marquette #1225 was built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. This locomotive was the very same engine that the Polar Express movie locomotive was based on. Today the locomoti... (more)

Pere Marquette 2-8-4 Berkshire #1225 is making the nighttime express with a PM caboose directly behind the locomotive as it heads past the Carland Elevator near Elsie, MI. In reality this is the S... (more)