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Re: (erielack) Fw: The Ghost Train
Who ya gonna Call? GHOST TRAIN BUSTERS!~ LOL
WellerK_@_aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 3/31/05 12:21:19 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
>rslate_@_frontiernet.net writes:
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>>Apparently back in the day, Lincoln's
>>body
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>>>was taken through all the big cities. It went thru Philly to New York,
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>>>then thru Buffalo to Chicago to eventually get to Illinois where it was
>>>buried.
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>Um, except I don't think that was the route for the Lincoln funeral train.
>I don't think it went from "thru Buffalo to Chicago". The train went to
>Indianapolis, then northwest to Lafayette (thru Lafayette Jct to transfer to the
>Monon), then up the Monon to Chicago. (I think the train went up the Monon's
>Michigan City line, then from Michigan City on another RR to Chicago). As a
>result, I don't think the train travelled on the Erie from NY City thru
>Binghamton and Elmira to Buffalo and thence to Chicago. Why would the train be
>routed over the Erie, then down to Indianapolis, then up the Monon? Seems too
>circuitous.
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>Of course, I could be wrong!
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>Incidentally, I was reading some history of the building of the CP-UP
>transcontinental line, and there is mention in there that the "Lincoln car" ended up
>being used by the UP or CP, can't remember which.
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>K A Weller, Lafayette IN
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