Lincoln Funeral Train

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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In this month of April when lilacs bloom,
it is fitting that we should remember our
16th President and his final trip home to Springfield.

http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/funeraltrain/baltimore.html

http://www.lincolnsmelancholy.com/resources_time.html

In the above, there is a link to a recording of Johnny
Cash reciting the Gettysburg Address.

http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton1/Lincoln51.html

http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/3217/mcms.html

http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/WHMC/WHMC-LFTR-01.html

http://storm.simpson.edu/mjdomo.archives/archived-rits/msg07038.html

http://www.explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?storyId=19&imgId=928

http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com/pa_ncr_prr_newfreedom_ashland.html

http://www.thezephyr.com/backtrack/lincolngoinghome.htm

http://www.alincolnlibrary.com/home.html

Dave
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?userid=920

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Good info!

Adrianspeeder

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thanks

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Thanks, and from Carl Sandberg:
THERE was a funeral.

It took long to pass its many given points.

Many millions of people saw it and personally moved in it and were part of its procession

The line of march ran seventeen hundred miles.

As a death march nothing like it had ever been attempted before….

The people, the masses, nameless and anonymous numbers of persons not listed nor published among those present-these redeemed it.

They gave it the dignity and authority of a sun darkened by a vast bird migration.

They shaped it into a drama awful in the sense of having naïve awe and tears without shame.

They gave it the color and heave of the sea which is the mother of tears.

They lent to it the color of the land and the earth which is the bread-giver of life and

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[#ditto] [#ditto] [#ditto]

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This is interesting. How many presidents have had a Funeral Train? I know of one that started somewhere in South Georgia.

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Another one that comes to mind is Dwight D. Eisenhower. Trains did an article on it some years ago.

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go to Proquest it s an online listing of viewable New York Times papers since the 1860’s…all you have to know is the death day of a particular president.

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The funeral of John F. Kennedy went up the East coat to Boston[?] from Baltimore [D.C.?] in 1963 and then in 1968 … If my memory serves me it was pulled by GG-1’s of the Pennsy and then in 1968 Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train went from New York to Washington…Here cut and pasted is an interesting annecdote:
From this web site address:http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22796&sid=06f3f8177545522b11bd1d588ac96972 by Dieter–

Joined: 20 Apr 2004
Posts: 496
Location: Atlantic
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:40 pm Post subject:

Otto~

1963; JFK’s body was flown directly from Dallas to Washington, then by ambulance to Walter Reed Hospital/White House/Capitol Rotunda/Arlington. From the White House to the Capitol to Arlington, he was on a horsedrawn wagon. JFK’s body was never on a train.

In respect to the RFK train in 1968, here’s a tidbit you will enjoy chewing on…

When RFK’s casket went from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan to Pennsylvania Station, it was supposed to be a quick trip, loading his body into an Observation Car and taking off for Washington. Like many things in life, it wasn’t that easy for the Kennedy family, nor Penn Central folks on that sad day…

Once they got the casket to the train, with TV cameras rolling, they discovered they could NOT get the casket through the side door and make the turn through the vestibule. Naturally, they then tried to take it through the rear