Continuity mistake: During the scene when the Polar Express slides across the ice and the conductor is telling the train controllers to head for the tracks, the distance between the train and the tracks keeps changing.

The Polar Express (2004)
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Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Jeter, Chris Coppola, Leslie Zemeckis
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Conductor: Sometimes seeing is believing. And sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.
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Question: What kind of instrument was the bum playing when we first meet him?
Answer: Violin.





Answer: The instrument is called a Hurdy-Gurdy. It is a type of wound string instrument.