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File Details: AMMDm, 100 DPI, JPEG, Original Photograph, .3 Mb
| Credit: | unknown photographer |
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| Date: | 1865.04.23 |
| Equipment: | bell |
| Locations & Lines: | Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR); Philadelphia PA; Pennsylvania |
| Persons: | Lincoln (Abraham) |
| Transports: | PRR locomotive 331 |
| Sources: | Chrysler Museum of Art |
Abdill, Civil War Railroads, p187: [A]t 12:00 noon the [Lincoln] funeral special left [Harrisburg] for Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The somber train was hauled by Pennsylvania Railroad’s Engine 331, shown here heavily festooned with the black crepe of mourning. The funeral engine was in charge of the engineer J. E. Miller and the train was skippered by Conductor George Phillips.
Chrysler Museum: Engine and Tender of Lincoln Funeral Train, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 23, 1865.