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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

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Omaha Steve

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Fri Jul 4, 2025, 02:53 PM Jul 2025

Wiring the Freedom Train [View all]



https://ibew.org/electrical_worker/wiring-the-freedom-train/?ref=news

July 1, 2025

On Feb. 4, 1975, Newberry Electric Corp. in Richmond, Calif., received a call from the Freedom Train Project asking if a crew of electricians could be ready tomorrow. Time was running short, and the company needed 12 train cars to be custom wired with only nine days until delivery.

Members of Martinez Local 302 were on site the next morning.

The Freedom Train Project was one of the many public events that were part of the U.S. bicentennial celebration in 1975-76. The project had assembled a 26-car steam-powered train dubbed the American Freedom Train and filled the 12 display cars with thousands of artifacts documenting the country’s proud heritage.

Beginning its journey in Wilmington, Del., on April 1, the train made stops in all 48 contiguous states. Over the next 21 months, it traveled up the East Coast, across the Midwest and the Great Plains, to the Pacific Northwest and down to Southern California, then to Texas and the South, finally arriving in Miami on Dec. 26, 1976.

FULL story at link above.

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Wiring the Freedom Train [View all] Omaha Steve Jul 2025 OP
i have a pic of her when she was @ la county fair in 1976. AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #1
Awesome! SheltieLover Jul 2025 #2
Post removed Post removed Jul 2025 #3
I remember the Freedom Train wendyb-NC Jul 2025 #4
Thanks for the post Dave in VA Jul 2025 #5
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