The Polar Express: What Came Before... l TRS19 

Realistically, it should've been a CN steam locomotive since the Polar Express movie takes place in the 1950s.

@@sword3349 But not an EMD SD60, an F7 and a few b-units would be realistic. Minor detail though.

I mean The polar express is a reskinned Pere Marquette berk And the coaches are… somewhere

Correction, their crescent limited coaches

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@@LucianoSalazar1776 I didn't know that.

Yeah, to me the coach set fit the Polar Express very well

@@boxpoxcomix6248 Agreed

Probably mikados or sum older locomotives

@@AydinLevingston-hi9di though I would love a mikado on the polar express, I’d guess they would have Pacific locomotives for speed

@@thatonecaledonian812 Here is what I think the locomotive lineage is Americans, Ten-wheelers, Atlantics, Pacific's, Hudson's, early Northerns, and Berkshires & Northerns in tandem with each other.

I’d say that the lineage for Polar Express locos would probably have started with a heavy 4-6-0 around the 1890s. It was then likely replaced some time between 1918-1923 by a larger USRA heavy Pacific. After that, the Berkshire was likely acquired in 1931 on commission from the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a copy of the popular Lima design. There were three locomotives of that design that were ordered from Baldwin and a later fourth member of the class from Lima in 1941. The Berkshires were numbered 1222-1226, and were used between 1931 and 1955, when they were then replaced by newer diesel-electric locomotives. After the diesels (a pair of EMD E9 locomotives custom fitted with 6 traction motors) arrived in 1954, the Baldwin Berkshires were slowly phased out of service. By 1960, only 1225 remained in service. The E9 diesels were soon replaced when Amtrak took over with a pair of f40phs. When Amtrak retired the f40phs, they replaced them with a trip of GE P42acs.

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