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American Freedom Train | The MEGA Passenger Pack

Hello Hello! Welcome back to another Episode of The Huber Show! I am your HOOOST Mark Huber and today we are going to discuss The American Freedom Train. Now, before we begin, I'd like to give a special thank you to all my Loyalists, my Iowa & Ramble Critics, and of COURSE! My NT&V Engineers. You are the reason WHY THIS CONTENT REMAIIINS! Spreading the meaning of our true country... FULL OF ARTIFACTS! Now the American Freedom Train is a special as its rarely seen on the Workshop at all. So I thought it would be a good idea to make some AFT Cars for content! Now I know the American Freedom Train never had the 6756 as its a Fictional locomotive, but I added it just to blend in because you cant uhh, pull cars without an engine, thats kinda a given. Anyways, lets get into the history and cut to the chase.
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The first Freedom Train was proposed in April 1946 by Attorney General Tom C. Clark, who believed that Americans had begun taking the principles of liberty for granted in the post-war years. The idea was adopted by a coalition that included Paramount Pictures and the Advertising Council, which had just changed its name from "War Advertising Council". Thomas D'Arcy Brophy (of advertising firm Kenyon & Eckhardt) described the Freedom Train as "a campaign to sell America to Americans". The Advertising Council planned an assortment of other events to accompany the Train, including messages in radio programs, comic books, and films. In each city where the train stopped, they organized a "Rededication Week" for public celebrations of the United States. In February 1947, the group formed the "American Heritage Foundation" and named Brophy its president.[1]

The Board of Trustees for the new foundation included:[1]

Winthrop W. Aldrich (chairman), president of Chase National Bank and brother-in-law of J. D. Rockefeller Jr.;
Chester Barnard, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation;
John Foster Dulles, then a lawyer and Republican political advisor, soon to become the U.S. Secretary of State;
Paul G. Hoffman, CEO of Studebaker automobile company, administrator of the Marshall Plan, and soon-to-be President of the Ford Foundation;
Eric Johnston, former President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and president of the Motion Picture Association of America;
Reinhold ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, prominent theologian; and
Charles E. Wilson, CEO of the General Electric Company and soon to be chief of the Office of Defense Mobilization—sometimes described as "co-president" of the United States under Truman.
The Board of Trustees did not include any African-Americans until after the train had launched. Walter White, Lester Granger, and A. Philip Randolph were proposed and rejected as candidates for membership.[2] Frederick D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute and founder of the United Negro College Fund was named as a trustee in October 1947.[3][4]

American Federation of Labor President William Green and Congress of Industrial Organizations President Philip Murray were vice presidents of the Foundation.[5]


The Freedom Train even had an official song, written by Irving Berlin and performed by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.

The train's first public display stop occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1947. From there, the train traveled in a route that took it up to New England, down the Atlantic coast to Florida, across the nation's southern states to California, up the Pacific coast to Washington, then across the northern states to Minnesota. After touring the perimeter of the nation, the train moved inland from Minnesota to Colorado then Kansas and Missouri, north to Wisconsin, then south to the Ohio River valley, north again to Michigan and finally east to New Jersey. The train's official tour end occurred on January 22, 1949 in Washington, D.C., nearly three months after its last public display October 26, 1948, in Havre de Grace, Maryland. A notable stop on the train's itinerary was its appearance at the Chicago Railroad Fair from July 5 – 9, 1948.

The American Heritage Foundation gave licenses to some vendors to sell Freedom Train gear such as books and postcards, while barring unauthorized merchants from selling other Freedom paraphernalia.[15]

The white press favored the train with mostly positive coverage. One exception was John O'Donnell, who commented in the Washington Times-Herald: "... we understand a committee headed by Winthrop Alrich, son-in-law of John D.



A second freedom train, the American Freedom Train, toured the country in 1975–76 to commemorate the United States Bicentennial.[30] The 26-car train was powered by three newly restored steam locomotives.[31] The first to pull the train was the former Reading Company T-1 class 4-8-4 #2101. The second was the former Southern Pacific #4449, a 4-8-4 steam locomotive which pulled the train through the Western region. The third was the former Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 #610, which pulled the train in Texas. Each locomotive pulled the train throughout a different part of the country. Due to light rail loadings and track conditions on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, diesels hauled the train from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Diesels were also required in Chicago after the steam locomotive derailed attempting to negotiate tracks by the Chicago lakefront.

The train itself consisted of 10 display cars, converted from New York Central and Penn Central baggage cars. They carried more than 500 treasures of Americana, including George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the original Louisiana Purchase, Judy Garland's dress from The Wizard of Oz, Joe Frazier's boxing trunks, Martin Luther King Jr.'s pulpit and robes, replicas of Jesse Owens's four Olympic gold medals from 1936[32] (one of which was stolen somewhere along the way), a pair of Wilt Chamberlain's basketball shoes, and a rock from the Moon. The train also consisted of two showcase cars, converted from NYC and PC baggage cars, #40 and #41. They had large showcase windows on either side, which the exhibits can be seen day and night. They carried a model of the Baltimore and Ohio "Arabian" steam locomotive, the Friendship Fire Engine from George Washington's fire company, a 1904 Oldsmobile Runabout, a lunar rover, a map of the train's journey, and the Freedom Bell.


A Special thanks to Supershinx, Micro, Missy,And Streetlamp for these great Budd cars.


And as always, This is Mark Huber, and I bid you all a FOOOND Farewell.