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Freedom Train The car held dozens of pieces of original American fine art -- Archibald M. Willard's The Spirit of '76, Augustus Saint-Gauden's The Puritan, Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountain Waterfall, Jacob Lawrence's The Builders, Frederic Remington's Bronco Buster, John Roger's Checkers Up at the Farm, Thomas Hart Benton's study for the mural at the Harry S. Truman Library, and Georgia O'keeffe's Black Palace I were among them. Photographed at Minneapolis. Image: John Hill collection |
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The car was originally NYC baggage car #9165, seen here on a High Iron Company excursion in the early 1970s. Image: Russ Shipman. |
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The car was converted to a display car with a moving walkway at Richmond, CA. According to Head of Security John Manning, the car was outfitted with displays at Pittsburgh. Shown at Columbus, OH. May 1975. Image: William Brandon, photographer. George Elwood scan. |
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Rigth side (engineer's right). Back at Cameron Station, VA, spring 1977, stripped of displays and car numbers. Image from the collection of the Squamish Lions Club, BC Canada. Nelson Winterburn scan. |
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Left side. Back at Cameron Station, VA, spring 1977. Image from the collection of the Squamish Lions Club, BC Canada. Nelson Winterburn scan. |
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