Any Steam Excursions in St. Louis During the Mid-70's?

[BigBoyFan4006]

My dad says he remembers standing under the Wabash Bridge in St. Charles, MO when he was a kid and hearing the chugging of a steam locomotive going across. He says it would have around 1975 through 1977-ish around the summer time. It has my curiosity peaked, and I'm trying to see if I can find what excursion steam locomotive it could have been. I figure SP #4449 pulling the American Freedom Train is a possibility, though I don't know if it crossed on the Wabash Bridge when it was in the St. Louis area. Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[jordon412]

Just got the December 2016 edition of Trains Magazine today in the mail. In the section regarding mistakes made in previous edition of Trains Magazine it says that Southern Pacific #4449 visited St. Louis on April 4th, 1976 with The American Freedom Train. At first I thought that it was a Southern excursion, however, I can find no evidence of a Southern steam excursion out of St. Louis using 4449.

 

[barryjarrett]

Four year old thread, but here's what I recollect: I don't know what route the Freedom Train took into St Louis, but it left via the MoPac Desoto Sub. An excursion I remember (road it and chased it), was Southern 4501 from E St Louis to Mt Vernon, IL, and return. That was '77 or '78, iirc. I don't recall any other steam engines in town from about '75 to '80.