The Village of Ashley Country Christmas welcomes back the Pere Marquette 1225 steam engine pulling the “North Pole Express” ...

The Pere Marquette No. 1225 was built in 1941 and is an iconic piece of Michigan history. Each winter, the railroad offers ...

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 Steam Railroading Institute ...

Every year a vintage steam locomotive in Michigan takes thousands of festive families to the North Pole. With some imagination and hot cocoa — the spirit of Christmas is still on track. Reaching the ...

OWOSSO — Tickets for the Steam Railroading Institute's annual North Pole Express steam train excursions from downtown Owosso to Ashley, and back, went on sale at noon and sold out within an hour. The ...

After nearly two years of extensive mechanical restoration, the Pere Marquette 1225 steam locomotive is back in service for this year’s North Pole Express. Tickets for the 2023 season of the North ...

Tickets for the 2025 North Pole Express train rides in Owosso, Michigan, went sale at noon June 24, 2025. Ticket prices range from $85 for coach to $6,500 for a private car. The Pere Marquette 1225 ...

Reaching the North Pole is no easy feat. The route from Lansing is an arduous expedition of more than 32-hundred miles. It takes a small fleet of cars, planes and ships to get to this fabled spot at ...

OWOSSO, Mich. (WJRT) - After taking a year off due to COVID-19, the North Pole Express was on track for the final time in Owosso this weekend. Passengers from all over the United States hopped aboard ...

Reaching the North Pole is hard, usually. People who live outside Detroit, Mich., for example, are more than 3,000 miles from the pole, and they'd have to travel across rough landscape and ice and ...