The first Amtrak electric to wear a commemorative scheme enters "home rails" after being built in Sacramento and having final paint work completed at Amtrak's Beech Grove facility. It j... (more)

Introduced in 1976, a four car train of 2400 series Boeing-Vertol rail cars is seen in their original bicentennial paint at the new Cermak-McCormick Green Line station. The cars were retired in 20... (more)

Introduced in 1976, a four car train of 2400 series Boeing-Vertol rail cars is seen in their original bicentennial paint on the Ravenswood Line. The cars were retired in 2014, but eight cars were ... (more)

WP's pair of BiCentennial painted units part of display near Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco on Fourth of July weekend.

Renumbered to it's "natural order" number of 506, the D&H bicentennial RS3u teams with an RS11 to haul East Binghamton - Taylor tonnage. This unit retained its patriotic paint scheme muc... (more)

Lehighton Bicentennials 5 - Arriving in Lehighton, looking for an Erie-Lackawanna bicentennial unit in helper service, I instead found an eastbound train lead by a D&H bicentennial unit stopping f... (more)

A summer '76 vacation in search of BiCenntennial locomotives found KCS's version among my least favorites none the less unusual to say the least. I believe they had a couple painted in similar pai... (more)

The Susquehanna dieselized early, acquiring a fleet of Alco S2's and RS1's that put steam out to pasture by the late '40s. The NYS&W demanded a lot of these 1000-hp units. They would often overhea... (more)

Looking a little worse for wear BN's Desert Storm painted SD60M visited BNSF's exSanta Fe Hobart yard in LA

All three of SP's BiCentennial painted locomotives were put together along with a selection of SP rolling stock for a photo special in Cajon Pass shown pausing for the photographer just below Hila... (more)

Burlington Northern's specially painted engine for the Gulf War heads South through Colorado Springs leading a pair of GE B30-7AB B-units.

EJ&E's Bicentennial contribution is gleaming in the summer sun while on display at a U.S. Steel open house in Gary. Notice the white-painted air hoses on the unit.

ICG's second BiCentennial painted locomotive (the first was destroyed in a tragic crossing accident in MS) leads an exIC exGMO and three brand new units for Sonora Baja California out of the roads... (more)

Photographer- James Claflin- from my collection. NW 1776 with passenger consist at Orland Park, IL August, 14, 1974.