The president lay in state at Independence ... and down the shores of Lake Erie, Lincoln’s funeral train rode the same rail corridors that Amtrak now uses. In fact, even as the journey unfolded ...

Eisenhower’s funeral train was the seventh in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln’s was the first, in 1865. With air travel becoming the norm in the 50s and 60s, Eisenhower was the last president to ...

president of the Schuylkill County Historical Society, reviewed the book in the Pottsville Republican on May 14, 1994. According to Farquhar, Nichols was also in charge of Lincoln’s funeral ...

In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan ... by train to his gravesite in Springfield, Illinois. The funeral train stopped in many cities along the way, where memorials ...