The Polar Express Page #3

If I was you....

I keep all my valuables right here.

Right here in the old size 1 3.

Experience shows this is the safest place.

Not that I have much use for those.

Tickets.

I ride for free.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I hop aboard this rattler any time I feels like it.

I own this train. Oh, yeah.

It's like I'm the king of this train. Yeah. The king of the Pol Ex.

In fact, I am the king of the North Pole!

Oh, where's my manners? Sit, sit. Sit.

Take a load off.

Hey, would you like some Joe?

Nice hot refreshment. Perfect for a cold winter's night.

[COUGHING]

There. Bless you.

What about Santa?

Santa? Isn't he the king of the North Pole?

You mean this guy? Huh?

Ho-ho-ho, ho-ho-ho.

What exactly is your persuasion on the big man?

Since you brought him up.

Well, I....

I want to believe.

But... But you don't wanna be bamboozled.

You don't wanna be led down the primrose path.

You don't wanna be conned or duped, have the wool pulled over your eyes.

Hoodwinked. You don't wanna be taken for a ride, railroaded.

Seeing is believing.

Am I right?

But what about this train?

What about it?

We're all really going to the North Pole...

...aren't we?

Aren't we?

Are you saying that this is all just a dream?

You said it, kid. Not me.

Ah.

So let's go find that girl.

One other thing.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Interesting.

HERO BOY:
Wait.

Wait!

Wait!

I have to wake up.

Yeah. I have to wake up.

Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.

Wake up!

Wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up!

[WHISTLE BLOWS]

HOBO:
Kid!

Kid, get your head out of the clouds!

Wake up, kid!

There's no sleepwalking on the Polar Express.

We gotta jump them knuckles.

Come on, kid. Flip my shoulders.

Grab my lily.

[GRUNTS]

That skirt you're chasing must have moved on ahead.

We gotta hightail it to the hog, pronto. To the hog?

The engine. The engine, you tenderfoot.

We gotta make the engine before we hit Flat Top Tunnel.

How come?

So many questions.

There is but one inch of clearance between the roof of this rattler...

...and the roof of Flat Top Tunnel.

Savvy?

It's just the run up to the hump, kid.

This will be interesting.

[GRUNTING]

Get back on, kid. Hurry!

Grab my muck stick.

[SCREAMING]

There's only one trick to this, kid.

When I say "jump"...

...you jump!

Ah!

You. I thought you got thrown off, and...

You're driving the train? They put me in charge.

The engineer had to check the light. ENGINEER: - Here's the light. Careful.

All right, now.

Oh! Oh! I got it.

[SCREAMING]

How do you know how? It's easy. Come here, I'll show you.

This big lever here, that's the throttle.

This little one here, that's the brake.

And those are the pressure gauges.

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