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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.
After Lincoln's assassination, his body was transported via the same rails on the funeral train's journey from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois. The nine-car train departed Washington, D.C., on April 21, 1865, and arrivied at Baltimore's Camden Station at 10 a.m. on the B&O Railroad.
1865, 159 years ago A time to mourn. 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 ...
Wary of the optics such opulence signaled in the aftermath of the Civil War, Lincoln never got the opportunity to enjoy the deluxe accommodations while alive, however it would take Lincoln on his final journey, a slow circuitous trip from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, with the remains of his son Willie in a funeral train ...
A locomotive painted to resemble Air Force One in honour of George H.W. Bush will carry his casket to its final resting place.
On April 25, 1865, the hearse, carrying Lincoln's body, was drawn through the streets of Manhattan en route to New York City Hall.It was accompanied by an "astounding" escort of 160,000 people, including soldiers, sailors, Marines, and dignitaries, in a lumbering and somber procession observed by half-a-million spectators.
The Abraham Lincoln funeral train stopped in Erie with Mayor F. F. Farrar aboard. [44] Mr. Lincoln made a pre-inaugural rail trip through nearby Girard, Pennsylvania on his way to Washington, D.C. from Illinois.