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Owner: AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN FOUNDATION
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   American Freedom Train observation cat "The Press Car". Former Reading 1329

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AFT 205
Title:  AFT 205
Description:  American Freedom Train stop at Rochester NY Regional Market
Photo Date:  5/10/1975  Upload Date: 11/9/2009 10:37:52 PM
Location:  Rochester, NY
Author:  Bob Zimmermann
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  609   Comments: 0
AFT American Freedom Train 205
Title:  AFT American Freedom Train 205
Description:  American Freedom Train 205 northbound near Homewood, Illinois on July 27, 1975, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/27/1975  Upload Date: 9/13/2012 2:18:01 PM
Location:  Homewood, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Signal
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Views:  496   Comments: 1
American Freedom Train 205
Title:  American Freedom Train 205
Description:  American Freedom Train on display at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois on July 28, 1975, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The closest car visible is The Press Car 205.
Photo Date:  7/28/1975  Upload Date: 9/25/2012 1:58:45 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  714   Comments: 1
American Freedom Train 205
Title:  American Freedom Train 205
Description:  American Freedom Train 205, The Press Car, on display at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois on July 28, 1975, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The following is from freedomtrain.org: AFT Observation Car #205, "The Press Car": Originally Reading commuter coach #1329, the Press Car was likely built by Standard Steel Car in 1922. While on the AFT it was most often referred to as the "Press Car" and had all the facilities journalists would need to report their stories on the AFT -- desks, typewriters, and even telephones wherever a phone line could be brought to the train.
Photo Date:  7/28/1975  Upload Date: 10/18/2012 1:58:14 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  863   Comments: 0
American Freedom Train 205
Title:  American Freedom Train 205
Description:  American Freedom Train passing through Arlington Heights, Illinois on August 4, 1975, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. After the train was displayed at Navy Pier in Chicago, the locomotives were changed from AFT 1 to AFT 4449 and the train was moved to Crystal Lake for display.
Photo Date:  8/4/1975  Upload Date: 10/4/2012 2:00:42 PM
Location:  Arlington Heights, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  556   Comments: 0
BN 1976 with the American Freedom Train
Title:  BN 1976 with the American Freedom Train
Description:  Bicentennial
Photo Date:  8/24/1975  Upload Date: 8/24/2010 2:53:21 PM
Location:  Holcomb, IL
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BN 1976(SDP40)
Views:  2104   Comments: 0
1002-A4-123 Southbound American Freedom Train heading for Sioux Falls
Title:  1002-A4-123 Southbound American Freedom Train heading for Sioux Falls
Description:  Crossing Excelsior Blvd.
Photo Date:  9/5/1975  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 11:05:05 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
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Views:  319   Comments: 0
1002-A4-123a AFT 204 on American Freedom Train
Title:  1002-A4-123a AFT 204 on American Freedom Train
Description:  Cropped copy of 1002-A4-123.
Photo Date:  9/5/1975  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 9:59:17 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  336   Comments: 0
1002-A4-124 Southbound American Freedom Train heading for Sioux Falls
Title:  1002-A4-124 Southbound American Freedom Train heading for Sioux Falls
Description:  Crossing Excelsior Blvd.
Photo Date:  9/5/1975  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 11:05:32 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
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Views:  356   Comments: 0
1002-A4-124a AFT 205 on American Freedom Train
Title:  1002-A4-124a AFT 205 on American Freedom Train
Description:  Cropped copy of 1002-A4-124.
Photo Date:  9/5/1975  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 9:59:41 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  362   Comments: 0
Passanger Car Freedom Train 1975
Title:  Passanger Car Freedom Train 1975
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/1975  Upload Date: 12/1/2004 10:19:48 PM
Location:  West Des Moines, IA
Author:  Jim Sands
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  502   Comments: 0
AFT 205
Title:  AFT 205
Description:  The rear car of the American Freedom Train on Display in front of the St. Louis Arch.
Photo Date:  4/4/1976  Upload Date: 1/15/2011 1:33:10 AM
Location:  Saint Louis, MO
Author:  Jerome Sanderbeck
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  635   Comments: 0
AFT 205
Title:  AFT 205
Description:  The observation or "press" car on the Freedom Train, AFT 205 was rebuilt from Reading commuter coach 1329. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/20/1976  Upload Date: 6/1/2009 8:37:50 PM
Location:  Dayton, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  770   Comments: 0
MRSR #321 PIERCE
Title:  MRSR #321 PIERCE
Description:  Built in 1922 by Standard Steel as RDG commuter coach #1329, sold in 1966 to Permacel #4 EDUCATOR, sold in 1968 to L&C #4, then sold to Preamble Express #4, then AFT #205, sold in 1978 to BCPM BRITANNIA, later to American Freedom Dinner Train in Lewiston, ID, then to Mount Rainier RR Dining Co. EXIF: 12:42 PM, f/3.3 @ 1/200, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 5:33:15 AM
Location:  Elbe, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  658   Comments: 0
MRSR #321 PIERCE
Title:  MRSR #321 PIERCE
Description:  Built in 1922 by Standard Steel as RDG commuter coach #1329, sold in 1966 to Permacel #4 EDUCATOR, sold in 1968 to L&C #4, then sold to Preamble Express #4, then AFT #205, sold in 1978 to BCPM BRITANNIA, later to American Freedom Dinner Train in Lewiston, ID, then to Mount Rainier RR Dining Co. EXIF: 12:42 PM, f/3 @ 1/200, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 4:50:27 AM
Location:  Elbe, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  948   Comments: 1


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