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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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