Bicentennial Locomotives - History and Review
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- July 4th, 1776, was a important date in American history, as the United States would declare independence as there own nation. 200 years later, America is celebrating their Bicentennial, and various companies would participate in the Bicentennial celebrations. Railroads would join the fun, with the Freedom Train going coast to coast, and the nationwide fad of painting locomotives into patriotic liveries of varying degrees of quality and quantity. In this video, I’ll give out a bit of history regarding the Bicentennial Locomotives and review every Bicentennial locomotive. And I mean EVERY one of them. From Industrial Companies to common freight carriers, commuter agencies to Belt Railroads, we’ll cover them all in this long video.
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Origins
3:42 - American Freedom Train and Preamble Express
6:36 - THE REVIEW
14:43 - Special Guest
17:06 - THE REVIEW (continued)
23:08 - Conclusion
26:09 - Credits
Music used (In Order):
Hail to the Chief
Jessica
Overture from “Tommy”
Tomfoolery - Spongebob
Joy - Apollo 100
Any Trash Professor Abacus
Mario Kart Channel Menu - Mario Kart Wii
Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band
Melting Pot - Booker T and the MG’s
April in Portugal - Les Baxter
The Nite Liters - K Jee
God Bless the USA
ALL PHOTOS USED DO NOT BELONG TO ME, THEY BELONG TO THERE RESPECTIVE OWNERS.
Incredible job on this masterpiece! Glad to be a part of this massive video, I'll definitely have to rewatch this video again to look into the history of some of the lesser known railroads brought up.
At least you were in this
Hi
Everywhere I look, I see your logo. Maybe it’s time I step up my own game…
You and Amtrakguy365, Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions, History in the Dark, and other youtubers are famous
Glad to have you in a video
The bicentennial was the biggest event for every railroad in rail history and happy fourth of July America.
I don't really care if anyone calls me a stigler for factuality, but I just got a giant OCD shock for that first line alone. They signed the Declaration of Independence on July 2nd, but it didn't go into effect until the famous day, two days later. Also, Seeing #1 and #4449 head to head for a hand-off was just unbelievably cool. Change my mind, I dare you blokes.
I just find it funny that Norfolk & Western went all out for this as they did a hopper, a semi trailer and an engine in matching schemes.
I like N&W's livery, but I feel like they misunderstood the assignment, since it's literally just the Confederate flag lol
Was lucky enough to catch "old rivets" in this scheme in 1976. Such a beauty! Never thought I would miss Conrail, but here we are.
Fun fact NW had a truck trailer painted like NW 1776 and rolling stock paint like NW 1776, too. Virginia Transportation Museum had a sign about them
Former active member of The South Carolina Railroad Museum...long before my time in the group, when it was still located in North Charleston SC, they repainted their 50 tom Porter siderod centercab # 76 into a red/white/blue scheme which it wore for almost 10 years after that. Supposedly it was the first museum loco to get a Bicentennial paint job according to the older mebers of the museum who did the work, but I have no other confirmation of this. By the time I knew the old girl and was involved in moving her and the rest of the collection 150 miles noth to Rockton, which is the museums current location (near Wimmsboro, SC) she had by then been repainted into red and black.
7:18 if u ask me, Reading 2101 wore the Bicentennial Scheme the Best! Imo
I mean, look at that crest on the side!
The KCS livery was actually the result of KCS having school kids design the livery through a contest.
Have seen railfanning videos of the BRC Loco still wearing bicentennial colors into the mid to late 90s
T&P 610 is often overlooked in the Freedom Train's history, sadly. 610 was a pretty large part of the tour, doing the entire state of Texas for 4449. 610 has also been ingrained in my history as my grandfather had taken videos of 610 and ATSF 5704 pulling the Freedom Train. Love 610, wish it'd come back.
610 resides at the TSR and is pulled out for display and put away in the shops around closing time
The Chicago West Pullman & Southern is my Grandpa Jim's railroad! He was the president of the railroad for 19 years before retiring in 1978. He later had a pullman named after him, which is still around today stored somewhere in New Jersey.
Bicentennial locomotives for 4th of July. Yes. My personal favorites are GTW #1776, the Baldwin S-12 Bicentennial diesel and the SP #4449. Though the other locomotives are cool too. I like all Bicentennial locomotives.
I like every single one
Except these
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@@amtrakproductions-mx9ibwhy do you have SPDaylight4449 Yes Rat-A-Tat no's profile picture?
Just for memorial
Oh yeah I forgot there were bicentennial locomotives in railroads seaboard bad ass one that I like
I have seen three of their steam locomotives before. I have seen Reading T1 2101 at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland back in April 2019, I had saw Texas & Pacific 610 displayed at the Texas State Railroad in Palestine, Texas, and I has saw their Southern Pacific 4449 displayed at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon serviceable.
NRRM 702 PLYMOUTH 20T., and Aerotrain, on NRRM shortline called "WISCONSIN AND YESTERDAY RR" chosen in 1961 public contest. BUT, the W.&Y.RR. name not used since this 1975 Bicentennial!! Posted in July 2023A.D.
I've been hoping for a video on the Bicentennial units. Thanks for all of your hard work!
This deserves more views man since this is really good vid.
CNW also had a small fleet of semi trailers painted silver with Bicentennial stripes. Walthers even sold them in HO scale for a short time!
Western Vermont #1776 had the classiest bicentennial livery of them all!
CW 102 is now in the Pueblo railway museum fully operational, I do get to work on that locomotive that is including driving, conducting and even washing
Very nice video man! Not gonna lie I’m happy about the rating of B&M 200 and CV 1776, and B&M 200 is still around to this day. It got renumbered from B&M 212 to 200 for the ‘76 scheme, then as shown was repainted back into the B&M Bluebird. Afterwards it ended up on the KCS as 4012, then renumbered as KCS 2010. I found a photo of it from this year, in service, so we can gladly say another Bicentennial Unit lives on.
would be nice to see it preserved back into its original bicentennial paint scheme
@@boston_and_maine I agree. I doubt it'll happen unfortunately with how luck usually draws its hand, but it's a nice thought to hope for, y'know?
8:33 "Bluetooth compatability" 💀
Awesome video. Glad you had the Tex Mex locomotive in there😊
Therapist : Don't worry , Non cowled 611 cant hurt you.
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Santa Fe's
*FREEDOMBONNET*
Has to be the best one!
But in the end, all the liveries that are in the style of the railroad's traditional liveries are the best.
Amtrak has identified itself as bicentennial since it was born.
Great video! Bicentennial locomotives are a vibe, never knew they were so many
edit: the SCL bicentennial unit should've got a 100% quality gurantee -a SCL foamer
2:16
As a fan of the Rock Island, that got a hefty chuckle out of me
Railfanning in the 1970s was interesting, but keep in mind that while we were trackside we could turn on the radio and listen to rock music at it's pinnacle. I remember the bicentennial units well and the BRC loco and caboose that kept the scheme well into the 90s. After watching this video I have the urge to listen to "Frampton Comes Alive" or "One More From The Road" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Fun Fact: ATSF 5703(Now Rebuild into a SD45-2B) has been bought by a private owner in Kansas City, MO(I think)
20:23 our historical society are now the proud owner of that locomotive, glad to see that is one of the better paint schemes.
Great show!!!!
America, FUCK YEAH!!!!!
Especially with the 250th anniversary coming 2 years from now
Tonight on top gear
Happy 4th of July
At 22:40 WPS 702,NRRM,GBW,PULLING AEROTRAIN, 702 SCRAPPED IN 1997!! BUT BROKE DOWN IN 1987. DIFFERENT MANAGER DESTROYED IT. HI 👋 IN JULY 2023A.D.!!
Alaska Railroad 1512 was painted in a bicentennial livery
one of the Pittsburg and Shawmut Bicentennial sw 1200 1866 runs on Albany and Eastern with it Bicentennial fully restored
Peter dibble also did a video about this
7:22 the sound caught me off guard 💀
Incredible trains and locomotives! Love em!
That was such a great video Omg! And I agree with your opinion on the central vermont (no bias of course lol)
21:18 that’s actually an rsd-1. That looks like one of the ones used by the US army on the Trans-Iranian Railway. The way you can tell is by the way the cab windows taper inwards. That wouldn’t be there on a civilian rsd-1, but it was always there on the military rsd-1s. The reason for this is because of the tight clearances on the Trans-Iranian Railway. The side windows had to be tapered inwards to allow the locomotives to fit through tunnels.
Pensyfan19’s part was the best thing ever
Thanks
PPG in Barberton Ohio had a 70 tonner painted for the Bicentennial
7:14 THE BEST!
7:30 Neat!
8:14 Clean cool and amazing
8:31 JUST PERFECT!!!!! (ABSOLUTELY PERFECT)
9:44 THE Crane Wins 🏆
And I knew Baldwin Diesels looked good in Bicentennial Colors
19:29 That is my home diesel (Palm Beach is in Florida)
July 4th of the Bicentennial year was when the Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad was opened to the public, I live an hour east of that place. You should do a video on that place
Very nice video
I do think Atlantic coastline 1776 should have got a stamp of approval though 20:31
I love how the longer the video goes the more unhinged Halton gets. Also, 10:44 LOOK MA, IM ON TV!
18:00 *YEEEESSSSS!!!!!* THANK YOU! Finally someone talks about Missouri Kansas Texas 200 and the MKT 76 bicentennial caboose. Happily the caboose is preserved, but i dont know what happened to number 200.
Maybe she’s in storage
@@amtrakproductions-mx9ibtrue,
I think union pacific still has a few former MKT diesel locomotives and freight cars on their roster
There's also one that originally worked for the Illinois Central, the Illinois Central Gulf, and The Katy
That engine is on the U.S. Sugar railroad along with the only former Gulf Mobile & Ohio locomotive on the U.S. Sugar railroad
@@amtrakproductions-mx9ibGOOD NEWS!!!! 200 is still in use! It's been renumbered to 4005 and it's most recent photo is from 2021
Unbelievable as it may sound, when the 4449 led Freedom Train visited Wichita in 76' the only place they could park it was on the little used, dead end, former mainline of the Midland Valley, acquired by the MoP, via the TP., with the rest of the Muskogee Co. I bet nobody saw that coming.
25:39 that weird car behind the green Missouri Kansas Texas railroad diesel is a track inspection car numbered 1045. It was the only one made and *it's happily preserved at the Oklahoma railway museum*
And fun fact: it's a modified 40ft boxcar
Yup! The MKT Inspection Car runs on our summer train rides!
With the Seaboard unit being the first unit painted in Bicentennial colors, it's no real surprise so many model companies offered units copied from it. Tyco's ALCO C-430 and C-630, as well as their EMD F-7, and oddly, their Sierra Railroad number 3 steam locomotive, all had colors strongly inspired by the Seaboard, though they had no roadname on them. Bachmann and Lionel both offered U-36-Bs and both companies' models rode on EMD Blomberg trucks, so Seaboard inspired Bicentennial colors were no-brainer for them.
18:36 It’s not a company. It’s Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane. It’s part of the government. It’s kind of cool that they did their own bicentennial unit
im so glad to see someone remembered the Hawaiian railway society
plus i think its a cute yet good looking unit
So little side history in the Union RR of Pittsburgh bicentennial unit. A really close family friend “Sam Bilak” joined the union round that time and was their Engineman till the around when B&LE was purchased by the C&O.
From what he told me, when he was about to retire. A few of his buddies managed to snag a part of 76’s old side door that was still in its 1976 paint which was laying around in storage.
Small world huh?
Cool
I love that remixed top gear theme lol
Inland Steel 76 is still around. It worked as the shop switcher at NRE Dixmoor for many years. They closed shop a few years ago scrapping or shipping off what was left to other facilities. The former INLX 76 is on plain bearing trucks and somehow ended up at a scrapyard just down the road. I dont know who owns it or if it is being scrapped. A trackmobile was switching cars next to it, but it is perfectly visible behind a fence at 147th and Ashland.
17:12 glad to see my towns railroad got featured
10:08 the trucks on this NW2 are so fucking badass. They were painted WHITE! Now that’s first class work right there!
You forgot one! And I saw it. And photoed it. Detroit and Toledo Shore Line. D&TSL
I saw the EL 3638 and EL/CR 6097. BRC, Monongahela, and several times the DT&I.
Honorable mention,,,I saw the BN bicen caboose.
Also, crap on the L&N for not participating!
At 22:40 702 from WPS at Nrrm pull AEROTRAIN COACHES, in 1975 I made audio cassette tapes of 702 squeaky whistle 😀!!!!! And home movies on 8mm Kodachrome movie film.!! I still have these now in July 2023A.D!! 🏈 GO PACKERS!!! LOL 😂!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸✝️ 🙏 ❤🤍 💙 🏁🏈🚂🚃🚃, TOOT-TOOT!! ALL ABOARD,!! HIGHBALL 👋,!!-!
Can’t wait for 2076
At 13:30 the Ingersoll-Rand boxcab is still in the Bi-Centennial paint at Illinois Railway Museum.
5:20 Pre-Am-Ble. You're welcome.
You forgot one. The North American Rayon Company No. 1 was dressed up for the occasion. No. 1 is a 0-6-0F (F = Fireless)
nice job
Last time i checked that M&H unit is STILL painted like that
Fun fact! That Cuyahoga Valley engine also ended up in Hutchison, on the same line as the H&N Steeple I think!
My favorite Bicentennial locomotive is SP 4449
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my guy that's a puerto rican flag
2:28 “steam cranes”
*proceeds to show a Diesel Crane*
Pre-am-ball 5:25
12:57 Who is this nugget? I love him! Also I'm pretty annoyed that the L&N didn't get involved.
I damn near jumped out of my chair when you said Milwaukee 156 was being saved. Living on the former Milwaukee mainline has given me a MAJOR bias towards it. (eventhoughitwasamismanagedpileofshit)
Where did you get the slide of the Clinchfield Coal SW-6 ? Only one railfan ever shot it, Lon Coone, a Master Photographer.
We have some very different opinions.
The 2101 part hurt my ears
I remember my granfparents telling me how the saw the AFT back in late 1975
8:40 what’s now KCS 2010 and I actually caught this locomotive
All Hail The American Freedom Train
The steam locomotives used should have been presented in their authentic livery. They are real museum pieces. The locomotives should have been run in their historic livery, adorned with flags and bunting in accordance with commemorative protocol.
When you started the music I thought I was watching Top Gear.
Dose the Fireless locomotive (NARC/Benuite #1) another excursion star as in there photos of it pulling coaches?
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It’s really sad what happened to the BRC 534 it was wrecked and instead of fixing it and touching up the paint it got repainted and renumbered to 150 and if you ever see it close enough the front grill is still red inside
if I ever get a GE tonner engine it’s getting a 1976 paint scheme
Yes
So a bit of back story on Grand Trunk Western 1776, it was built as a GP38AC and was originally for the Central Vermont In 1971 as number 5808. The unit would be involved in a wreck around after it was built before being fixed and put back into service as Grand Trunk 5808, In 1976 it would be repainted into the Bicentennial Colors and numbered to 1776. After going on tour the locomotive to my research did pull revenue freight while numbered 1776 until about very early 1977 when it was painted into its original colors and renumbered to 5808 (again). It would serve the railroad even after the Grand Trunk became apart of CN until it was sidelined and retired in 1996 with a bunch of other GTW GP38ACs at the CN Transcona Shops in Winnipeg MB. Fortunately the locomotive was then bought by Locomotive Leasing Partners (LLPX) and renumbered to to LLPX 2216, before heading south across the border it would be outfitted with Dynamic Brakes. It would serve with LLPX in Arkansas until around 2014-2015 when it was then sold to GATX, renumbered to 2253. However it was last photographed in 2015 In service with GATX but currently its location or any other info on it is unknown.
5:21 it’s Pre-amble
Let me correct this because it really confused me aswell, SCL 1776 was not preserved, she was scrapped in the late 90s by csx. The preserved unit was originally 1776 but was renumbered to 1813 once the parades started.
I like how grand trunk joined in then they are a Canadian company and was incorporated into Canadian National
24:29 Do I sense a *Bite sized oddity?*
As a big Maine Central fan I agree very underwhelming on the other hand as a big Boston and Maine fan there scheme is the best
Not to mention passenger cars also got the bicentennial colors although not for the freedom train
Also Southern Had that Sticker on Steam Special Combine 726
I agree with Boston and Maine #200 as the best one.
Let’s don’t forget Union Pacific had the same situation as Amtrak with their colors being the colors of the flag plus yellow
Everywhere I look, i see your logo.
If anything they should let 844 pull the American freedom train next time a red white and blue 4-8-4 from Union Pacific would be cool either that or 1218 like he said or challenger 3985 so yeah happy Fourth of July
Hell yes the Top Gear theme