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The American Freedom Train waiting at the Naval Air Station in Miramar, California, on January 15, 1976 Southern Pacific 4449 stopping in Georgia in 1976 while pulling the American Freedom Train Lunar Rover display in car of the American Freedom Train. A second freedom train, the American Freedom Train, toured the country in 1975–76 to ...
In 2016, Ross Rowland founded a new "American Freedom Train Foundation" to promote a 2026 Freedom Train concept for the United States Semiquincentennial. [2] Criticism of the American Freedom Train 2026 and the prior Yellow Ribbon Express has come from railfans who have speculated they were projects whose primary goal was to fundraise money for ...
Reading 2101 is a preserved T-1 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive constructed in September 1945 for use by the Reading Company. Constructed from an earlier "I10SA" 2-8-0 "Consolidation"-type locomotive, 2101 was originally built in March 1923 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the 2101 handled heavy coal train traffic for the Reading until being retired from revenue service in 1959.
One year later, Lionel released a model of the American Freedom Train to celebrate the nation's bicentennial. The brand rose to prominence in 1976 following a series of television commercials featuring Johnny Cash , who was a longtime Lionel collector.
In 1975, work began to restore No. 610 to operating condition, and the following year, it pulled the American Freedom Train throughout Texas. From 1977 to 1980, No. 610 was leased by the Southern Railway to pull excursion trains for their steam program. In 1981, No. 610 returned to Fort Worth under its own power.
This article lists all of the station stops made by the American Freedom Train tour in 1975 and 1976. 1975. April 1975. April 1 – Wilmington, Delaware;