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)

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

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.

The ex-Erie-Lackawanna US Bicentennial unit drops down the 4-track curve in helper service. Date is approximate...

The bicentennial celebration has been over for twelve years, but a faded tribute to the event is still hanging on near the Monongahela's shops in Brownsville.

Apache Railway was not going to be left out of the nation’s Bi-centennial in 1976, so it painted its diesels red-white-blue too. Five Alco RS-11’s were dragging the substantial interchange fr... (more)

SP 4449 leads the American Freedom Train east through Alhambra, CA.

The Cambria and Indiana Railroad painted two peices of rolling stock to commemorate the nation's bicentennial - an SW9 and a caboose. Here caboose 56 stands behind the company's offices in Colver,... (more)

Painted for the bicentennial, Rock Island E8 652 leads the Peoria Rocket west out of Chicago. Kodachrome slide processed in January 1977.

Conrail's bicentennial painted GG-1 leads an Amtrak train east out of the terminal Harrisburg. This Kodachrome was processed in October 1976. Any information on this train would be appreciated!