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.

Most of the crew of Cambria and Indiana's daily train is on the caboose or on the ground to guide the train out of Colver. Bicentennial caboose 56 is sitting out today's activities.

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!

The 9389, one of three different class of units SP painted up in a BiCentennial paint scheme to celebrate our countrys 200th birthday was leading an eastbound train in the City of Industry making ... (more)

SP 6800 one of four MK rebuilds of U25B's also one of three units SP painted up in a BiCentennial paint scheme for the 1976 200th anniversary of our countrys independence sits waiting for go back ... (more)

electric Stars and Stripes. The first electric locomotive honoring our veterans is brand new and gleaming in the sun. This loco was built by Siemens in Sacramento and painted with platinu... (more)

Roadside America... While on a work trip, came across this piece of Americana in one of those "blink and you miss it" small towns. Located along the Katy Trail, is this MKT Bicentennial... (more)

MET job heading for SP interchange yard in Modesto

Spanking clean Bi Centennial painted 5702 is awaiting a hi ball in the straddle buggy tracks at Hobart yard before leading the Super C east on it's thirty six hour dash to Chicago.

The American Freedom Train has just arrived in Bethlehem from New Brunswick, New Jersey. The crew is backing the train into its display location next to the former Jersey Central passenger station... (more)