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Viewing Album:  American Freedom Train
 
By:Ron Hawkins
Dates:8/1/1974 - 7/30/2024
Album Info:Various locomotives, passenger cars, and freight cars associated with the 1975-1976 Freedom Train including the Preamble Express passenger cars.
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AFTX 104
Title:  AFTX 104
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:48:32 AM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  21   Comments: 0
AFTX 105
Title:  AFTX 105
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:48:53 AM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  20   Comments: 0
AFTX 105
Title:  AFTX 105
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:50:19 AM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  23   Comments: 0
AFTX 106
Title:  AFTX 106
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:34:45 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  20   Comments: 0
AFTX 106
Title:  AFTX 106
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:38:58 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  20   Comments: 0
AFTX 107
Title:  AFTX 107
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:35:32 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  23   Comments: 0
AFTX 107
Title:  AFTX 107
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:35:49 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  18   Comments: 0
AFTX 108
Title:  AFTX 108
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:36:14 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  21   Comments: 0
AFTX 108
Title:  AFTX 108
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:36:34 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  20   Comments: 0
AFTX 109
Title:  AFTX 109
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:36:54 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  23   Comments: 0
AFTX 109
Title:  AFTX 109
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:37:17 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  18   Comments: 0
AFTX 110
Title:  AFTX 110
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:37:38 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  20   Comments: 0
AFTX 110
Title:  AFTX 110
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 8:38:05 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  19   Comments: 0
AFTX 111
Title:  AFTX 111
Description:  Support passenger car - and no, that is NOT John Belushi.
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/12/2025 6:22:24 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  23   Comments: 0
AFTX 111
Title:  AFTX 111
Description:  Support passenger car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/12/2025 6:22:43 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  17   Comments: 0
AFTX 20
Title:  AFTX 20
Description:  Support passenger car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/12/2025 6:21:12 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  19   Comments: 0
AFTX 33
Title:  AFTX 33
Description:  Support passenger car
Photo Date:  1/20/1976  Upload Date: 2/12/2025 6:21:35 PM
Location:  San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  13   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  AFT 4449 has just crossed over the Santa Fe mainline with the American Freedom Train in tow.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 2:36:38 PM
Location:  Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  The photo line has formed near the former Southern Pacific Colton depot as AFT 4449 heads east on the Sunset route.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 2:36:57 PM
Location:  Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  The marker lights at on as AFT 4449 and the American Freedom Train rolls through Colton.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 2:37:19 PM
Location:  Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  AFT 4449 is making good time as it heads over Beaumont Pass on its way east.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 2:37:51 PM
Location:  Beaumont, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  The low smoke and pulled back flags means AFT 4449 is moving at a fair clip as it heads east.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 2:38:09 PM
Location:  Beaumont, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  53   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  A lone woman waits and watches as a helicpoter flies over the approching American Freedom Train with AFT 4449 on the point.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 2:38:44 PM
Location:  West Palm Springs, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  42   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  AFT 4449 rolls by the signal on its way east and out of Califormia.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 2:39:02 PM
Location:  West Palm Springs, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  The Espee official in the suit and white hard hat tries his best to watch the crowd as AFT 4449 makes a brief stop in downtown Indio.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 2:32:15 PM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  After the station stop AFT 4449 headed to the yard for another short stop to check some equipment.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 2:32:32 PM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  35   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Having started before dawn AFT 4449 still has a long day ahead of it before reaching Arizona.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 2:32:52 PM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  42   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Time to leave town as AFT 4449 gets underway and we try to form a photo line.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 2:33:12 PM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  So much for a photo line...AFT 4449 and the American Freedom Train heads east to continue it nationwide tour.
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 2:33:31 PM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
AFTX 20
Title:  AFTX 20
Description:  Support passenger car
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 10:10:58 AM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  27   Comments: 0
AFTX 31
Title:  AFTX 31
Description:  Flat Car
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 10:12:49 AM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  23   Comments: 0
AFTX 32
Title:  AFTX 32
Description:  Flat Car
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 10:13:09 AM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  22   Comments: 0
AFTX 33
Title:  AFTX 33
Description:  Support passenger car
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 10:11:25 AM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  17   Comments: 0
AFTX 40
Title:  AFTX 40
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 10:11:56 AM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  24   Comments: 0
AFTX 41
Title:  AFTX 41
Description:  Display car
Photo Date:  1/21/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 10:12:20 AM
Location:  Indio, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  30   Comments: 0
AFT 1
Title:  AFT 1
Description:  Auxiliary tender
Photo Date:  8/30/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 3:10:57 PM
Location:  Trenton, NJ
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 1(4-8-4)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
AFT 1
Title:  AFT 1
Description:  Front view of AFT 1 on display in Trenton.
Photo Date:  8/30/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 3:11:13 PM
Location:  Trenton, NJ
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 1(4-8-4) RDG 2101(4-8-4)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
AFT 1
Title:  AFT 1
Description:  The crowd is packed tight around AFT 1 as they wait to get inside the display cars.
Photo Date:  8/30/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 3:11:27 PM
Location:  Trenton, NJ
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 1(4-8-4) RDG 2101(4-8-4)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
AFT 1
Title:  AFT 1
Description:  AFT 1 was used as a prop for hundreds of photo during its stop in Trenton.
Photo Date:  8/30/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 3:11:39 PM
Location:  Trenton, NJ
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 1(4-8-4) RDG 2101(4-8-4)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
AFT 1
Title:  AFT 1
Description:  Tender of AFT 1.
Photo Date:  8/30/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 3:11:54 PM
Location:  Trenton, NJ
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 1(4-8-4) RDG 2101(4-8-4)
Views:  81   Comments: 0
AFTX 109
Title:  AFTX 109
Description:  Display car - sometime between January and August the dates under this outside display were relettered using a different font.
Photo Date:  8/30/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2025 3:12:26 PM
Location:  Trenton, NJ
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  45   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  It's American Freedom Train duties over, AFT 4449 heads west with an Amtrak special as it makes it way back to Portland.
Photo Date:  4/24/1977  Upload Date: 2/24/2025 3:18:32 PM
Location:  Salton Sea Beach, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Heads always turn when AFT 4449 rolls by at speed.
Photo Date:  4/24/1977  Upload Date: 2/24/2025 3:19:04 PM
Location:  Salton Sea Beach, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  AFT 4449 undergoes some work while at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT).
Photo Date:  4/25/1977  Upload Date: 2/24/2025 3:20:00 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  40   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  The open smokebox door of AFT 4449.
Photo Date:  4/25/1977  Upload Date: 2/24/2025 3:20:20 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  33   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  The setting sun reflects off the inside of the smokebox door of AFT 4449.
Photo Date:  4/25/1977  Upload Date: 2/24/2025 3:20:38 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  47   Comments: 0
AFT 4449 and AMTK 590
Title:  AFT 4449 and AMTK 590
Description:  AFT 4449 is joined by AMTK 590 at LAUPT.
Photo Date:  4/25/1977  Upload Date: 2/24/2025 3:20:56 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4) AMTK 590(SDP40F)
Views:  62   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Two "SP GS4"s in one place at one time...AFT 4449 is joined by a California license plate on a Volvo.
Photo Date:  4/25/1977  Upload Date: 2/24/2025 3:21:19 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
AFT 4449 and AMTK 1157
Title:  AFT 4449 and AMTK 1157
Description:  With AMTK 1157 looks on, AFT 4449 waits at LAUPT to head north as the second section of Coast Starlight.
Photo Date:  4/26/1977  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 12:31:02 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  No one is getting out there for a closer look at AFT 4449 so it's time to come up with Plan B.
Photo Date:  4/26/1977  Upload Date: 2/28/2025 12:31:21 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  36   Comments: 0

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