Yes, maybe not the full train, but enough to give us a feel for what it was like: http://www.the2015lincolnfuneraltrain.com/
Glen Brewer
Looks fascinating. No reason it couldn’t be done, the problem that I would see is finding railroads willing to host the funeral train replica.
The Railroad Car Journal, December 1892
President Lincoln’s Private Car
Editor Railroad Car Journal:
Dear Sir: In reply to yours and a number of others asking for drawings, etc., of the private car built for President Lincoln during the war, I will state that all I have is the accompanying photograph. The sketches of connecting running-gear I have made from memory. I give you below my history of the car.
At the time I wrote to "Locomotive Engineering’’ I expected the car would be exhibited at the Columbian Exposition. I have just learned that Mr. B.P. Lamason, the designer of the car, died about a year ago, so the writer is the only living person who had anything to do with the building of the car. Mr. Lamason was superintendent of all car work of the United States Military Railroad of Virginia. The shop of the Orange and Alexandria and Mannassas Gap Railroad, located at Alexandria, was used by the Government for building and repairing cars. A long Government shed was added to the shop for car work, of which the writer was foreman.
Some time during the year 1863 Superintendent Lamason either conceived the idea, or had received instruction, to build a private car for the use of the President. The work was begun in November of that year, and was completed in February, 1865. The car was designed for the general use of the President, and not exclusively for the purpose of conveying him to and from the front, as is generally supposed; neither was the car cased inside with iron as has been stated by some writers.
The car was completed but a short time before the assassination of the President. On the day the President was assassinated Gen. J.H. Devereaux, Superintendent of Transportation, and Mr. Lamason were awaiting a reply to an
Thanks for the posting wanswheel! Doesn’t that photograph have an eerie, melancholy feel to it? Maybe it was intended to.
There was an article in Model Railroader Magazine about an old master wood worker who was also an amatuer Lincoln historian. He had built a beautiful Large Scale model of the Lincoln Funeral train.This was in the late 60’s/early 70’s.I wonder what happened to to that?
George
I believe the model you are thinking of is on display at the Warther Museum in Dover, Ohio
this is a photo of the model
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