American
Freedom Train The American Freedom Train began its journey without this car, but it was soon added. It was intended to be a tool car for the T-1 locomotive crew, but concessions took over and it served to provide storage and laundry facilities for the concessions people who toured with the train. Curiously, it did have a narrow fire escape door added as though it was meant to have a moving walkway -- as the display cars all did. It can be seen at extreme left in this photo. Image: John Hill. Photographed in Minneapolis. |
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The would-be tool car was originally planned to be #99, as seen in this conceptual artwork by Bob Lorenz. It did, in fact, leave the production facilty in Richmond, CA wearing number 99. But by the time it joined the train in the east its number had been changed to 20, the number it wore for well over a year. At the Pentagon stop in September of '76, the car was renumbered 33 -- and stayed that way to the end of the journey. Finally all the support cars were in numerical order, 30-34.
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The car served for a time on the Chessie Steam Special in 1977, again as Car #33. Current disposition unknown. Please email if you have any additional info. Originally NYC baggage #9133, built by ACF in 1946. Image: Brian Bode 1981, near Hilliard, OH. |
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