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 ...

Aaron Farmer, master mechanic of rolling stock, loads coal onto the tender of Pere Marquette 1225 as they get ready for the first day of the North Pole Express at the Steam Railroading Institute ...

OWOSSO, Mich. — Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. 1225 is undergoing a full retube of its boiler, according to a May 12 news release by the locomotive’s owner, the Steam Railroading Institute (SRI).

The Pere Marquette 1225 was built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, for the Pere Marquette Railway. Holding 22 tons of coal and 22,000 gallons of water, the locomotive consumes ...

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.

An onlooker photographing the Pere Marquette 1225 steam locomotive passing through Carland, Michigan had a close call when he got too close to the tracks, Shiawassee County deputies said.