Kellogg's offered cardboard cutouts of the Freedom Train on the bottom of variety packs of their breakfast cereals. One variety pack got you the complete Freedom Train (it took six to get you the whole Daylight Train pictured next to it).

Curiously, a Daylight locomotive (not too different from the red and orange locomotive in this ad) would be one of the three engines to pull the American Freedom Train some 27 years later!

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