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Funeral services, a procession, and a lying in state were first held in Washington, D.C., then a funeral train transported Lincoln's remains 1,654 miles (2,662 km) through seven states for burial in Springfield, Illinois. Never exceeding 20 mph, the train made several stops in principal cities and state capitals for processions, orations, and ...
Abraham Lincoln's funeral train.. A funeral train carries a coffin or coffins (caskets) to a place of interment by railway.Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders, national heroes, or government officials, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to graveyards.
Lincoln's funeral train carried his remains, as well as 300 mourners and the casket of his son William, on the Northern Central Railway in April, 1865 1863 map showing crossing of the Susquehanna River on the Marysville Bridge. Traffic was later routed over the Rockville Bridge.
The funeral train carrying the remains of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln passes through the Upper Mohawk Valley region on its 1,700-mile journey from Washington to Springfield, Illinois. ...
President Abraham Lincoln traveled through Ruxton and Riderwood en route to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to deliver the Gettysburg Address in November, 1863. Less than two years later, on April 21, 1865, Lincoln's funeral train also passed through Ruxton and Riderwood on its way from Washington, D.C., to his final resting place at Springfield ...
Lincoln's funeral train. Lincoln was mourned in both the North and South, [80]: 350 and indeed around the world. [84] Numerous foreign governments issued proclamations and declared periods of mourning on April 15. [85] [86] Lincoln was praised in sermons on Easter Sunday, which fell on the day after his death. [80]: 357
A locomotive painted to resemble Air Force One in honour of George H.W. Bush will carry his casket to its final resting place.
Lincoln's private car was used for his funeral train in 1865, leaving Washington on April 21, 1865, and arriving in Springfield, Illinois, on May 3. Lincoln's funeral car was destroyed by fire in 1911 shortly after this car (as the Western Pacific coach 895) went into service.