Tickets for the 2025 North Pole Express train rides in Owosso, Michigan, go on sale at noon June 24, 2025. Ticket prices range from $85 for coach to $6,500 for a private car. The Pere Marquette ...

The 4½-hour excursions, typically pulled by the famed Pere Marquette 1225 steam locomotive, which was adapted to animation for the "Polar Express" movie starring Tom Hanks, steam out of town ...

Water samples were collected from the lake on Tuesday by District Health Department #10, which serves 10 counties in west central Michigan. Test results showed "unusually high" E. coli levels.

Marquette. Kam Jones: The dynamic guard has taken on higher usage this season, and it paid dividends for the Golden Eagles. The senior is up to nearly 20 points per game with nearly five and six ...

The morning of Dec. 30 was a great time to take my last run of this year. The rail trail was clear, the skies partly sunny and the temperature a comfortable 38 degrees.

Choose from five different classes of service, leave with a souvenir ticket and “Believe” bell, and don’t miss the Institute’s largest locomotive on display — the Pere Marquette 1225, which is on the ...

Pere Marquette No. 1225 Robert Emmet. In 1957, the ... (MSTRP), and in 1985, the same year that The Polar Express™ hit shelves, No. 1225, ran under its own power for the first time in 34 years.

LANSING – The famed Pere Marquette 1225 steam train that leads the North Pole Express excursions from Owosso to Ashley’s Country Christmas will not run again this year.

LANSING – The famed Pere Marquette 1225 steam train that leads the North Pole Express excursions from Owosso to Ashley’s Country Christmas will not run again this year.

The Pere Marquette 1225 typically pulls hundreds of passengers on a 4½-hour excursion from Owosso to Ashley on weekends beginning in late November. One of Michigan's most famous trains, the Pere ...