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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies Railroad trains Railroads
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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ny.Jim Hunt is seventy-five years old. He wasaa engineer on the New York Centralwhile the present generation of locomotivedrivers were playing in the clinkers in thetrain yards. When lie is not playingpinocle with the firemen of Steamer No.7. he is telling how Abe Lincoln lookedwhen lie stood on the platform of his carand watched the crowds that came tomeet him all along the seventeen milesfrom Schenectady to Albany. Jim says hefelt proud that day. My engine wasErastus Corning, Jr., No. 47. She was ntvery big. You could put her in the tenderof these fellows running now, but she wasas sleek and smooth as your pet cat. Thefiremen of No. 7 have bought him a wheelchair, which he can run by turning twocranks. They put a bicycle light on it fora headlight, and every morning, on thisgo-by-hand locomotive, he goes from hishome to the engine house, where he sitsall day telling stories of railroad life inthe early sixties. ,. ! I Y £ (\.u I Passage of Funeral Train through Philadelphia in 1865
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Lincolns Funeral Train at W. Phila. station of the P. W. & B. on April 22, 1865. Frame structures to left rear arerailroad shops. Extreme left is Woodlands, the old mansion which still stands in Woodlands cemetery. In those days,trains crossed bridge at that point and moved down Prime st. (now Washington av.) to Broad st. The old station therenow is the Pennsylvania Railroad freight station. From there the casket was carried to old Kensington station andput on a train for New York. .- *i s 7 -.__/ I, j » •• . ■/ «*» i Fft ? =» g5 P c» B — e f-V a tn p 5j c/> 5 < 3 ™ « = 9 «D S. (3 P ft pa 3 ss c tr = 2. » o era o cg3 sr si i §-^» hj _cra ^ IT X M 5 S3 e» «■» r* ! 3-2 g- j r*- r+ i-h P p- p I 9 U T ; n (B » 1 B? .2-1 D P <• , ., tra o o. —- c^ ; 0- tn S f 05 BE CL i C p fc P 2< o era © i a S 3 O- p Kl e joucarsSprii ^ - *-i * WJ _ p ffi O (1

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