American Freedom Train
Display Car #103
"Growth of the Nation"

The car contained artifacts and displays related to our quest for knowledge and our desire to travel about our expansive country. Artifacts onboard included the silver spade used to break ground for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, a model of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, and a model of a linear induction motor vehicle (the kind that were going to make railroads obsolete!).

Originally NYC baggage car #9178.

Photographed at Minneapolis.

Image: John Hill collection

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 Chicago.

Right side (engineer's right).

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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