Dashboards and Saddlebags the Destination Magazine™ Issue 009 December 2011 | Page 18

The Polar
Express Mountains Railroad’s
The Great Smoky
Seasonal Service to the North Pole

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n 1985, Chris Van Allsburg
wrote The Polar Express, a
story of a magical train ride on
Christmas Eve. The train takes
a young boy to the North Pole
to receive a special gift from
Santa Claus. “The Polar Express,”
published by Houghton Mifflin Company, has become a
contemporary holiday classi