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YOU ARE VIEWING A FABULOUS PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN.
THIS TRAIN WAS CREATED AND OPERATED THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE NATION DURING LATE
1975 THROUGH EARLY 1977 AS PART OF AMERICA'S 200TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.

AFTER 20 YEARS OF INACTIVITY FORMER SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD STEAM LOCOMOTIVE NUMBER 4499 WAS RESTORED TO OPERATING LIFE AND LED THE TRAIN ON MUCH OF IT'S JOURNEY, BRINGING AN EXTENSIVE DISPLAY OF AMERICA'S HISTORY TO MANY CITIES.

DECEMBER 22,1975:

ON A COLD CLOUDY MORNING THE BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL CROSSED THE TEHACHAPI  MOUNTAINS IN ROUTE FROM THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TO LOS ANGELES DRAWING THE ATTENTION OF TRAVELERS ON NEARBY HIGHWAY 58,MANY OF WHOM STOPPED TO WATCH IT PASS BOTH IN AWE AND ABSORB THE MOMENT WITH MEMORIES OF THE DISTANT PASS.

THIS PHOTOGRAPH CAME FROM AN ESTATE AUCTION AND WAS PRODUCED BY DON R. FLYNN PHOTOGRAPHY...IT IS CALLED "WHEN I WAS A KID" THERE IS ONLY ONE AVAILABLE..

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