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Changing of the Guard August 4, 1975 Proviso Yard, Chicago. The two primary locomotives of the American Freedom Train meet for the first of three times to exchange duty on the train. The two locomotives could hardly have been more dissimilar. The oil-burning former Daylight engine had been built to pull short, light high-speed streamlined passenger trains along the California coast. Everything about its design was meant to either facilitate speed or to imply it. The coal-burning former Reading engine had been made to haul long, heavy coal trains through the mountains of the East. Its design was more utilitarian - with the singular purpose of providing the stump-pulling power necessary for its mission. Image: L. Andrew Jugle. |
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