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In 1976 a lot of Railroads Painted their Locos

in the Freedom Colors

In 1976, The Detroit Toledo & Ironton painted one GP-38 for the bi-centennial.  This loco was used for freight trains only. I had the opportunity to see this loco several times in 1976.

D T & ! 1976 Freedom ColorsD T & I Fort Street Yard

Other railroads from southeastern Michigan also used this popular paint design, like Ford Rouge Railroad Yard Switchers, and Buick Town, in Flint Michigan also painted their yard engines with the Freedom Paint Color.

Gary: Rail-fan

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trainroomgary posted:

Electric is OK, with me. That GG-1 • Looks great. Even Lionel made a model.

Lionel GG-1 76

Gary: Rail-fan

Nice I have the Williams scale GG1 bicentennial , cool stuff!  Have that Seaboard coast line in several scales. Being from northern New England I do like that BAR  engine too!

Rusty Traque posted:
John23 posted:

Those were pretty cool.  The railroads really got into that.   Trains magazine did a group photo poster of a bunch of them together in Chicago.  The only one that I saw was the Soo Line's unit when it came to Marquette, MI.  

The Trains photoshoot:

1776

Here's a ROSTER of all the known Bicentennial diesels

Rusty

The Roster forgot three locomotives:  AFT 610, 2100, and 4449.

Plus the UP 951 as the Preamble Express 951 was a train to test routes for the AFT.  (Did the AFT lease the unit?)  Officially UP never on its own had a bi-cent locomotive.

Jim R. posted:
rdunniii posted:

I asked Sunset doing the Milwaukee bicentennial SD40-2 but I guess I am the only one as it has not been added to the website yet (which means less than 4 others have asked).

MTH made Milwaukee Road SD40-2 no. 156 in its bicentennial scheme a little more than two years ago. Item no. 20-20412-1. Readily available.

I'd forgotten about that, probably explains it.  But I am not interested in anything MTH makes.

William 1 posted:

imageI doubt this is from '76, but there are a handful of these BC Rail units that roll through my hometown on the CN line.  They are red, white and blue.  Just saw #4620 last Sunday.

Plus, BC Rail was officially chartered in 1984 (from British Columbia Railway, whose locomotives were two-tone green) and was hardly in the United States...

Rusty

645 posted:
Engineer-Joe posted:
NJCJOE posted:

Yes, there were a lot of them.

 

I don't think I have seen this one?

SCL 1776 was the engine that started the whole bicentennial paint scheme fad. Without it it's possible we would not have seen any bicentennial engines at all.

Umm, the SCL U36B was modeled by Bachman in N and HO scale, by Athearn in HO, and by Lionel in O gauge.  And those models and sets are still circulating in the market. How could you possibly have missed that one?

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