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 ...

The train idea was revived in 1976, the nation's bicentennial, as a 25-car American Freedom Train toured the nation. The route changed significantly, with tracks sometimes in less than ideal ...

By the time the Freedom Train wrapped up its journey in Miami on Dec. 31, 1976, it had traveled 25,833 miles across the continental United States, stopping in 138 cities and attracting 6,762,965 ...

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 ...

For $15 you could buy a ham and cheese sandwich aboard the American Freedom Train. The expensive sandwich was worth the priceless experience of riding in a car modeled after the 1890s. In October ...

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 American Freedom Train was pulled by one of three enormous steam locomotives; as it visited cities throughout all 48 contiguous states from April 1st, 1975 through December 31st, 1976.

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 ...