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B&O RR Museum to re-enact the Lincoln funeral train

Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jan 29 23:07:13 2015

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B&O Railroad Museum to re-enact Lincoln's funeral train

By Joanna Sullivan
Jan 23, 2015, 11:26am EST

Courtney B. Wilson calls President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arriving in Baltimore nearly 150 years ago "one of the nation's saddest and most contemplative events."

Wilson, who heads the B&O Railroad Museum, says that's why the museum will commemorate the event in a "very solemn manner" when the museum recreates the funeral train's Baltimore stay April 18-19.

The re-enactment is part of a weekend full of commemorative events planned. It also features the museum's acclaimed exhibit, "The War Came by Train."

Among the activities planned:

• A replica of the coffin will be placed in the museum's National Historic Landmark Roundhouse.
  
  
• Civil War soldier and civilian re-enactors will participate in the ceremonies and researched authentic funeral music will be provided by the Federal City Brass Band.
  
  
• The Museum's 1863 locomotive "Thatcher Perkins" will accompany the ceremony and be decorated exactly like the Lincoln Funeral Train.
  
  
• Each ceremony will be narrated by author and guest curator Daniel Carroll Toomey.
  
  
• The formal narrated commemoration will take place at 11:30 a.m. on both April 18 and 19.

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