Regarding the Freedom Train, Steamtown has the following :
FILE UNIT# Box 099-Folder 023
COLLECT# 0003/001.08
CATEGORY DOCUMENT
TITLE Erie RR--Contract # 9423--Erie Railroad Company, and New
York State Freedon Train Commission and New York State Cultural Heritage
Foundation, Incorporated--Covering organizing and functioning of New York
State Freedom Train (January 19, 1949)
I don't know if this is of interest to anyone, but I can pull the folder
and take a look if anyone is.
Patrick McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193
We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future
possible.-Alan Bloom
"Bruce Ipe"
<bruceipe_@_gmail.com To: dhocrosby@netscape.net
> cc: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org, (bcc: Pat
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erielack-owner_@_list Subject: Re: (erielack)1946 Freedom Train
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09/04/2006 04:51 PM
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Please respond to
"Bruce Ipe"
Did Erie have any involement with the first Freedom Train, which I believe
ran in 1946? JB Ipe
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> John, and list:
> I don't have any recollection of the Centennial train as I was less than
2
> when it came through my hometown of Little Valley, NY. I do have a copy
of
> the May 1951 Centennial issue of the Erie Magazine and copies of a few
> period articles.
> One "Erie Railroad Will Re-enact Historic Atlantic-to-Lakes Run May
14-15"
> includes a photo of the 4-4-0 on the tracks next to the 711, a
description
> of the 1851 run, and a few paragraphs about the planned reenactment. It
> mentions that "Part of the old-fashioned equipment will be a
> specially-constructed 'Daniel Webster' flatcar." (I would take the photo
to
> be one of the stock publicity photos, background tree seems to be the one
> seen on the Magazine cover, but more 3/4 angle, and spotted a bit
> differently.)
> Another copied newspaper photo shows the 4-4-0 ("William Mason" in Erie
> livery), baggage car and coach on flatcars (loco on Erie 8055 or 805?5
- -??).
> A corner of a flat just forward of that can be seen. To the rear seem to
be
> a center cupola caboose, two or three gons, a boxcar and a final caboose.
(I
> believe these articles are both from the Jamestown Post-Journal, but
failed
> to annotate them.
> I also have Section 3 of "The Evening Tribune" Hornell, NY, November 26,
> 1951 - with multiple articles and photographs.
> Attached are three images from that source.
>
> 822-25 is captioned: " 100 YEARS OF RAILROADING--Century-old 'William
> Mason' locomotive and train running alongside newest model of Erie
Railroad
> diesel locomotive helps to show the great improvement in Erie facilities
> brought about during the past 100 years. Erie's Centennial train passed
> through Hornell and other cities of New York State in May of this year.
The
> old locomotive was on display here July 18 during Hornell's Centennial
> Week."
>
> Cen-Hornell - says: "GREETINGS IN HORNELL--The largest crowd to greet the
> Erie Centennial Train on its run was in Hornell. Throngs of Hornell and
area
> folks jammed the railrod tracks and Loder St. for a view of the train. A
> replica o the Erie's first train was carried on a (sic) flat car."
> Well- flat cars-!!. This again shows the 4-4-0 on flat 805??, with
another
> flat in front. The forward flat is carrying the replica old time flat,
with
> "Daniel Webster's" rocker. Another photo (apparently taken on the flat)
> shows "Dallas Boyd, screen and television actor" portraying Webster in
the
> rocker with the front of the 25 in the background.
>
> Cen-Smiley reproduces page 45 of the section - a full page salute by the
> Erie Railroad honoring the co-centennial of the Hornell Tribune. A
> multi-story tall Smiley observes a not-so-diminutive 4-4-0 with three
> coaches (?) next to an "interesting" ABA diesel set. Did the artist
(Erie?)
> do some PR work ? Looks to me like the nose of an Alco PA spliced on the
4
> porthole carbody of EMD FT's!!
>
> Articles include: "Erie Main Line Piermont-Dunkirk Run in 1851 Attracted
> Nation's Attention" , an account of the events of the original run.
> "Special Erie Train Re-enacts Inaugural Run in Observance of 100th
> Anniversary" - an accounting of some particulars of that run.
> "Single Shed Housing Two Engines in 1851 Grows Into Huge Modern Diesel
> Shops"
> and many others!!
>
> Doug Crosby
> ELHS 2830
> ELH&TS 41
>
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