[PRCo] PRCo Freedom Train

[Bob Rathke]

Attached is a photo I took of the Freedom Train in the PRR station in Pittsburgh on 7/9/76.  The Reading 4-8-4 puled the train in the East, and the SP Daylight 4-8-4 was used in the West. 

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From: "DF Cramer" <alto_trombone at hotmail.com> 
To: "List, Pittsburgh" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 7:00:19 AM 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Freedom Train 

I saw the Bicentennial version of this in Tarentum in 1976. Pictures on a hard drive in the library downstairs that I currently cannot access due to being semi-handicapped. 

Dennis F. Cramer 
http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/ 

> From: dwightlong at verizon.net 
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org 
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:33:21 -0400 
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Freedom Train 
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> Fred 
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> I can remember K, 1, 3, 4, and 6 pretty well. Also pre-school, then known as "nursery school."  But I have few memories of 2 or 5.  What does that tell you about me, Dr.? 
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> I can remember all my elementary school teachers' names, except for K. 
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> So was your school named for Universal Atlas, the cement subsidiary of The Corporation? 
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> Dwight 
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>   From: Fred Schneider 
>   To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
>   Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 4:00 PM 
>   Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Freedom Train 
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>   Thanks for the memories, Ray.   That would have been a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in September 1948.   I have vague memories of standing in that line.  It would have been the opening weeks of 3rd grade at Universal elementary school in Penn Township but I have no memories of escaping from classes.   Funny that I have no memories of 1st, 2nd or 3rd grades but all sorts of memories beginning in 4th grade after we moved.  I cannot even remember the teachers' names in Pittsburgh, but I can remember all of them starting in 4th grade. 
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>   I remember cases of documents on the train but I have no really important impressions about what those documents were.   My mother probably was much more stimulated by them.   But I did understand, even then, that Alco and GE built the diesel.    Shows what I cared about.   Takes some of us a while to wake up, eh?   
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>   Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that the Reading railroad ran steam engines a block from my school in Lititz in the 4th grade?   
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>   And Universal, all I can remember was the freaking cement dust from the factory down at the bottom of the hill.   
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>   On Jun 30, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Lattner, Raymond wrote: 
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>   > FYI. In case anybody missed this. 
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>   > http://pgdigs.tumblr.com/post/89611306237/1947-48-the-freedom-trains-journey-through 
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>   > Ray 
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