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The Northern Central Railway’s Special Schedule, for the Friday April 21, 1865, Lincoln Funeral Train from Baltimore to Harrisburg, lists schedule times for the Pilot Engine; with a footnote ...
Saturday, which was National Train Day, Union Pacific Railroad’s Locomotive 1616 — honoring the 16th president — rolled into ...
On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was infamously assassinated. Six days later, his body began its journey to Springfield, Illinois, from Washington to be buried. He was transported by ...
Tuesday marked the 160th anniversary of a somber day, as the funeral train taking fallen President Abraham Lincoln from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, passed through Champaign ...