<Li> Eric Newton, Aidan O'Shea, Aaron Hendry, Kevin C. Carr, Bee Jay Joyer, Jena Carpenter, Karine Mauffrey, Beth Carpenter, Bill Forchion, Devin Henderson, and Sagiv Ben - Binyamin as Acrobatic Elves </Li> <Li> Evan Sabara as a Young Boy (additional motion - capture) </Li> <P> The buildings at the North Pole refer to a number of buildings related to American railroading history . The buildings in the square at the city's center are loosely based on the Pullman Factory in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood . </P> <P> The locomotive featured in the film is an American 2 - 8 - 4 Berkshire type steam locomotive, with a cowcatcher, modeled after the Pere Marquette 1225, which had spent many years on static display near Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan on the campus of Michigan State University, where Chris Van Allsburg recalled playing on the engine when attending football games as a child . </P>

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