American Freedom Train 4-8-4 4449 (ex-SP GS-4 4449) passes through Camarillo, CA on New Year's Eve, 1975 on the way to the next display location — Santa Barbara. This is a companion to photo 98... (more)

The American Freedom Train runs along the mighty Los Angeles River as it wends its way to its first southern California display site at the LA County Fairgrounds in Pomona, about 30 miles further ... (more)

The bicentenial was still a year away and on this particular day both the D&H and B&M tri-color units were in Mickyville on the same day.

One of Frisco's two Bicentennial cabooses, #1776, brings up the rear of the display train with SCL U36B 1776 on the point.

SP Bicentennial GP40P-2 3197 leads an eastbound freight through the wye at Lathrop.

NB freight with a famous leader. Note the telltale, long obsolete.

Bicentennial scheme

GTW 1776 and CN 5548 are waiting for the yardmaster to tell them what track their train is on in the yard at Battle Creek, Michigan, in September of 1977.

The Soo Line Bicentennial locomotive is switching the yard at Calumet, Michigan, - one of the destinations for the Keewenaw shifter.

Heading into the setting sun, Union Pacific's Desert Storm diesel leads a westbound toward Victorville, CA. Cajon Pass and the terminus of Los Angeles lie ahead. UP SD40-2 3593 was originally UP 8... (more)

George Bush Heritage engine from a higher view. EOS 20D

UP 4141, the George Bush library locomotive sits on display at Texas A&M

Union Pacific's Desert Storm diesel leads a westbound onto Santa Fe trackage for the last leg of its trip to Los Angeles. It will return to UP rails in Riverside, CA later that evening. UP SD40-... (more)

Western Pacific GP40s 1976 (ex-3541) and 1776 (ex-3540) on display in San Francisco, along with Bicentennial power from Santa Fe and Southern Pacific.