AFT at Rochester's Regional Market

In a recent thread on railroad.net on Rochester's Regional Market (see our original post on the Market), a follow-up question was asked if the American Freedom Train was on display at the Regional Market.    The answer was yes.  The AFT was at the Market from May 7-12, 1975.    The engine #1, ex-Reading T-1 #2101, is seen here in an image from the Charles Belt Collection of the Rochester Chapter NRHS.

According to this timeline, the train traveled to Cleveland, OH following the Rochester stop where there was finally time to give the engine, "a proper paint job."  The auxiliary tender seen behind #1 above appears to be in primer.   The timeline also states that at Cleveland, "Artist Bob Lorenz gives the former #2101 the second of three paint schemes she will wear during her Bicentennial journeys."

And more to come... From the archives of the Rochester Chapter NRHS...