Train Festival 2014

Van Sweringen Berkshires

NKP 765 and PM 1225 are close cousins built to the same design but for two different railroads which were owned by the same overarching organization.

Lehigh Valley Coal Company 126

Lehigh Valley Coal Company 126 1931 Vulcan Iron Works 0-6-0 Saddle Tank Engine

Van Sweringen Berkshires 2

Nickel Plate Road 765 & Pere Marquette 1225

Evolution of the Steam Locomotive

Leviathan #63, Little River Railroad 110, Nickel Plate Road 765, & Pere Marquette 1225

Pere Marquette 1225

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

Pere Marquette 1225 Turntable

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

NKP 765's Drivers

The drive wheels of Nickel Plate Road 765

Pere Marquette 1225

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

Pere Marquette 1225

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

110 and 1225

Little River Railroad 110 & Pere Marquette 1225

Pere Marquette 1225

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

765 and 1225

Little River Railroad 1 & Viscose Company 6

Pere Marquette 1225 at the Coal Pile

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

Little River Railroad 1 Drivers

Pere Marquette 1225

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

Pere Marquette 1225

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

Pere Marquette 1225

Built 1941 Lima Locomotive Works Class N1 2-8-4 Berkshire Served as the basis for the CGI locomotive in the Polar Express film.

Little River Railroad 110 & Ann Arbor Caboose

Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911, number 110 is the smallest standard gauge 4-6-2 Pacific type locomotive ever built. It was made for the original Little River Railroad in Tennesse. Today it hauls excursions on the LRR of Coldwater, Michigan.