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East Troy’s North Shore Line interurban car undergoes full restoration with car No. 162 to join the museum’s operating fleet ...
Abraham Lincoln — or at least the locomotive celebrating his memory — returned to Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Ill., ...
Union Pacific, celebrating its 163rd birthday, brought its newest commemorative locomotive honoring founder President Abraham ...
July 1 marked the 163rd birthday of the Union Pacific Railroad. On that date in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the historic Pacific Railway Act, which ...
Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...
The funeral train of President Abraham Lincoln rests under a decorative archway at the Monon Station in Michigan City on May 1, 1865. Along with several major cities, Michigan City was one of the ...
Known as the Lincoln Special, the funeral train made a stop at the depot in Michigan City on May 1, 1865. A large crowd turned out to greet the train to pay homage to Abraham Lincoln, who grew up ...
Steam into History held a series of tours and re-enactments during the weekend to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination and his funeral train.
HAMMOND | The nearly 8,000 people who boarded the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train exhibit in Hammond over four days last week have some local leaders considering a return, and perhaps ...
BURNS HARBOR | Passing over some of the same Northwest Indiana ground the actual Lincoln funeral train traversed 150 years ago, a replica train engine arrived Tuesday morning for storage in Burns ...
From funeral train to pickup truck. The train trip carrying Lincoln’s body back home was a route of bereavement, with dozens of stops along the way for an estimated 7 million citizens to mourn ...
ELGIN, Ill. | Funding is about $100,000 short for a replica of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train to make a trip from Washington to Springfield to commemorate the 150th anniversary of ...