This story starts with William Coblenz, a government worker in Washington, D.C., who visited the National Archives during a lunch break in 1946, right after the Allies had won World War II. Seeing the ...

In 1947, the Freedom Train began its year-and-a-half-long journey across the United States to instill a greater sense of American heritage on its many stops along the way. Among the historic documents ...

The Freedom Train was a seven-car train that traveled across the United States from September 1947 until January 1949. It contained some of the country's most priceless historical documents. Then ...

LIMA — In the late 1940s, America was flush with victory in World War II, growing as a world power and on the doorstep of unprecedented prosperity. President Harry Truman and other national leaders ...

Lou Nelson - former security guard on the American Freedom Train 1975-76. Rohan Vos - founder and CEO of Rovos Rail. Friedhelm "Fred" Hillebrand - inventor of SMS and text messaging. Arch Puddington - ...

I recently discovered the ticket stub from my tour of the American Freedom Train during the Bicentennial. It had been lost between the pages of race car driver Mark Donohue’s book the “The Unfair ...

In my post American Freedom Train was in York County for whole Bicentennial Weekend, I wrote about visiting the 1975-1976 American Freedom Train on July 5, 1976 during its stop at the New Cumberland ...

Many of us remember the Freedom Train that toured the nation in 1975 as part of the nation’s bicentennial celebrations. Filled with popular culture memorabilia, it was a bit like a condensed version ...

It appears there are lots of train buffs out there. The arrival of the 85-foot long Freedom Train car this weekend drew numerous spectators to Willoughby Coal and Supply on Erie Street as owners Dan ...

It was a Sunday in November 75 years ago. It was a cloudy, and cold day on Nov. 9, 1947. World War II had ended two years before, and some of the nation’s leaders were afraid the American population ...

Public transit in Toronto is a site of normalized regulation and ritualized order. Yellow lines dictate where to stand on train platforms, mechanized voices announce stops and safety reminders and ...