25 Days of the 1225
December 3rd
he locomotive was built in 1941 by Lima Locomotive Works for Pere Marquette Railway (PM). PM ordered this type of locomotive in three batches from Lima: class N in 1937 (PM road numbers 1201–1215), class N-1 in 1941 (numbers 1216–1227) and class N-2 in 1944 (numbers 1228–1239). 1225 cost $200,000 to build in 1941 ($3,217,647 in current dollars). The build was complete on the December 6, 1941 and delivered to the Pere Marquette
