The Pere Marquette 1225 is 15 feet, 8 inches tall, and 101 feet long with a combined engine and tender weight of 401 tons. It can produce 5,000 horsepower.

Volunteer Jean Kloha and master mechanic Justin Hamilton put masking tape on the Pere Marquette 1225 before a new paint job as they get ready for the first day of the North Pole Express at the ...

Two-year-old Oliver Crofoot is facinated by the steam produced by the Pere Marquette 1225 steam engine as it idles in the Village of Ashley Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015.

The Pere Marquette 1225 is 15 feet, 8 inches tall, and 101 feet long with a combined engine and tender weight of 401 tons. It can produce 5,000 horsepower.

With an average speed of 25 mph, the train carries about 700 passengers per trip. The Pere Marquette 1225 was built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, for the Pere Marquette Railway.

Lake State Railway on Thursday (Aug. 21, 2025) unveiled a new heritage locomotive honoring the predecessor Pere Marquette ...

Unfortunately, the Pere Marquette 1225 was not leading our trains to the Village of Ashley. The steam locomotive is currently side-lined as a precautionary measure for a concern with the ...

The Pere Marquette 1225 was saved from the scrap line in New Buffalo, and later donated to Michigan State University in 1957 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (the C&O merged with Pere Marquette ...