Identifier: assassinationofaloclinc (find matches)
Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Locomotives Railroad conductors Locomotive engineers Trainmen Railroads Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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our. Telegraph offices were kept open during the entire passage;when a station was cleared the operator at once gave notice to the nextstation up the line. The pilot was not permitted to pass any stationwithout first getting information of the funeral train having passedthe last station, coming to a full stop if necessary. An attended signal was shown at every switch and bridge, and at theentrance upon every curve. Each attendant personally had to know thatall was safe. The track signal from Lafayette until broad daylight wasa white light and from that time to Michigan City, a draped white flag.During darkness the pilot carried red markers and a draped American flagduring daylight. Both the pilot and funeral train had absolute right tothe line during this passage; opposing trains were sided. Eighteen sixty-five was an important year in the life of the LNA^C.A new era began - an era of successful expansion, development, and refine-ment that also was at once an era of trial and trouble.
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Lincoln funeral train attracted crowds Even in the middle of the night, mourners gathered with lamps and bonfires By Bob Kriebel, For the Journal and Courier A 50-year-old historian from Ohio has written a heck of a book that willinterest many Lafayette-area students of railroads, Abraham Lincoln or theCivil War. The author is Scott Trostel, and his illustrated volume is TheLincoln Funeral Train. This book, he says, takes a close-up look at the human side along theroute as well as the route itself, the railroad cars, locomotives, trainsand the tremendous logistics required to make the 1,700-mile journey fromWashington D.C., to Springfield, 111. The entourage left Washington on April 21 and reached Springfield on May 3.It went from Indianapolis to Chicago on May 1, 1865, and rolled throughLafayette about 3:30 a.m. The Lafayette Courier gave the dead-of-night event but a few shortsentences: The funeral train passed through this city on time this morning.Notwithstanding the positive anno

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