Amercian Freedom Train with SP 4449 and three Cotton Belt SD40-2T tunnel motors climb the Techachapi grade at Cliff, Calif. on an overcast Dec. 22, 1975 en route to display at Long Beach.

"The American Freedom Train Eagle"

RDG #2101 toured the eastern portion of the United States as the "American Freedom Train" between April 1, 1975 to September 1976. ... (more)

RDG #2101: "The American Freedom Train"
An amazing read - trust me!

The Baldwin Locomotive Works built a class I-10a for the Reading Railroad in 1921. Orig... (more)

Cambria & Indiana’s bicentennial SW9 idles with some sisters at the road’s Culver, Pennsylvania shops. C&I’s SW9’s may have been the earliest application of Flexicoil trucks on an EMD swit... (more)

The Susquehanna’s bicentennial RS1 spends the weekend with a GP18 at the road’s Little Ferry, New Jersey engine terminal. The NYS&W’s diesel roster, originally a group of mid-1940’s Alco s... (more)

When this slide was taken, I recall one or 2 trains arriving at Long Island City with FA power packs on the west end. All of the other diesel powered arrivals had to be set over and have their uni... (more)

A pair of Yankeetown Docks BiCentennial painted units were at the engine facility in Yankeetown

Eastbound Preamble Express on Santa Fe Bandini

One of Apache's fleet of ALCO's freshly painted in BiCentennial RWB colors was inside Apache's shop building at the paper mill west of Snowflake.

Bi Centennial painted SLGW unit switching Garfield

The American Freedom train travelled east on the former DL&W mainline on July 22, 1976, moving between exhibitions in Scranton, PA and Morristown, NJ. By the time the former Reading T-1 got to An... (more)

UP 951 painted in red white blue for service on the Preamble Express train.

The Pittsburg and Shawmut's Brookville turn gets its train together before it departs to serve the mines between Brookville and Kittanning, Pennsylvania.

Amtrak 90208 with new Veterans paint scheme on Veterans Day at Los Angeles Union Station in 2015.

I usually don't look at all the cars in coal trains as they roll past, but this one caught my eye. This is a Union Electric (UCEX) car on an empty coal train near O'Fallon, Missouri.