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 ...

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 ...

The American Heritage Foundation unveiled a new slogan, “Freedom is Everybody’s Job,” and Irving Berlin wrote a catchy song, which débuted in a carefully coördinated media blitz, just ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.