by motor
The thread on the Penn Central board re Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train, a thread laden with anecdotes, including one from me, inspired this thread...
In the early spring of 1969, as a seven-and-a-half-year-old, I watched (on TV) bits and pieces of my first presidential funeral, that of the 34th chief executive, Dwight D. Eisenhower. (I was alive for most of JFK's presidency, but don't remember it, his assassination, or his funeral).
I joined my then-newly-divorced mother (she has since remarried) at her girlfriend's in Chester, PA the night we watched Ike put on his funeral train for Abilene, KS at WUS.
By now you're probably wondering why I chose the B&O board for this thread. Simple. I assume the first leg of the train's journey to Ike's town of breeding was on the B&O (was it?). (The mods can move this thread where they want.)
Railroad.net's search engine didn't work too well for me when I searched for this topic, so that's the other reason I started this thread. If this has been discussed before on this site, please link the thread here.
That's my Eisenhower anecdote. Others are welcome.
motor
In the early spring of 1969, as a seven-and-a-half-year-old, I watched (on TV) bits and pieces of my first presidential funeral, that of the 34th chief executive, Dwight D. Eisenhower. (I was alive for most of JFK's presidency, but don't remember it, his assassination, or his funeral).
I joined my then-newly-divorced mother (she has since remarried) at her girlfriend's in Chester, PA the night we watched Ike put on his funeral train for Abilene, KS at WUS.
By now you're probably wondering why I chose the B&O board for this thread. Simple. I assume the first leg of the train's journey to Ike's town of breeding was on the B&O (was it?). (The mods can move this thread where they want.)
Railroad.net's search engine didn't work too well for me when I searched for this topic, so that's the other reason I started this thread. If this has been discussed before on this site, please link the thread here.
That's my Eisenhower anecdote. Others are welcome.
motor