Ross Rowland, who spearheaded the American Freedom Train effort as a young man, recently told me how Wayne came to have the idea. Rowland had run away from home in the 1950s and fortuitously ended ...

The American Freedom Train was a tremendous success. During the bicentennial period, it traveled to all 48 contiguous states, stopped 138 times, and had an average of more than 50,000 visitors ...

North Vietnam forces were circling Saigon when the "American Freedom Train" rolled into Albany in 1975. The museum-on-wheels was founded by Ross Rowland Jr. to celebrate the country's upcoming ...

The American Freedom Train was pulled by three steam locomotives: One of them is known as "AFT NO. 1," and it's getting a massive cosmetic restoration.Sitting outside the B&O Railroad Museum's ...

The American Freedom Train was pulled by three steam locomotives: One of them is known as “AFT NO. 1,” and it’s getting a massive cosmetic restoration.

Freedom itself may be on the ballot this year — it’s definitely on the soundtrack. Beyoncé’s 'Freedom,' her 2016 anthem, is in heavy rotation in Harris campaign ads and at rallies.

The American Freedom Train was pulled by three steam locomotives: One of them is known as “AFT NO. 1,” and it’s getting a massive cosmetic restoration.

Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their first appearance on the American landscape, railroads -- and all the imagery they conjure up -- have featured prominently in ...

The Freedom Train took important American documents across the country in the late 1940's, ... Through 12½ hours of the Freedom Train in Binghamton, 6,833 people made their way through.

The shift from plane to train lent the song a freedom. It no longer felt so tied to the early 1970s. Houston’s version didn’t move the needle, but Knight’s velvety voice took ownership of ...

It had deeply affected American lives already stressed from the 1930s Great Depression. ... Freedom Train reaffirmed democracy in Jefferson City. November 5, 2022 at 4:00 a.m.

As we fast approach the 250th anniversary of American independence, it’s time to get Wayne’s American Freedom Train back on the tracks as part of the quarter-millennium celebration.