Lanterns from Original Train will Once Again Make History
We are honored and humbled to have been loaned two brass lanterns that were on the 1865 Lincoln funeral train. The lanterns will be displayed on the replicated funeral coach. Thank you to Dante Stephensen for his generous support of this project, and for entrusting us with these priceless pieces of American history.
Read MoreLincoln Car Update, Aug. 1, 2014
Exterior woodwork continues. (Note the cameo by carpenter Jerry Mennenga!) ...
Read MoreLincoln Car Update July 20
Thank you to our volunteers who spent last week working on the exterior of the Lincoln Funeral Car....
Read MoreCoverage on ‘Chicago Tonight’!
Thank you to Jay Shefsky and his team at WTTW Chicago for their continued support of this project!
Read MoreRolling Along with the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train
We’re still hard at work raising money to build the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train. We were excited to receive our custom wheels at the shop recently. Here you’ll see the 8 axels and 16 wheels that will carry the historic recreation of the Lincoln funeral car. If you’d like to help us keep rolling along, please consider making a donation to our project. There’s still a long way to go to get the train cars built and furnished as historically accurate as...
Read MoreTaking our message on the road
Take a look at the trailer that houses the Leviathan store when we take the locomotive on the road. We’ve decked it out with the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train, and we’re excited to get noticed as we head out to the Illinois Railway Museum this weekend, and on to New York after that! Thanks to Simon at Signs Now South Elgin for all the hard...
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