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LINCOLN'S GHOST TRAIN
After the president was killed on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, the train
carrying his body and three hundred mourners began the funeral journey,
which reportedly has never ended.
It the month of April, the air on the railroad tracks became very cold and
cutting although the air on either side of the tracks remained quite warm.
When the watchmen noticed this strange metamorphosis, they slipped off the
tracks and sat down to watch the passing of a most unique spectre train,
the Phantom Lincoln Funeral Train.
All clocks and watches suddenly stop as soon as the pilot engine would
come into view with its black streamers and a band of spectral musicians
playing dirges. The Phantom Train's passengers consisted of an honor guard
of fallen Union soldiers, who guarded the single large coffin that held
Lincoln's body.
The very track itself seemed covered with a black funeral crape in honor of
the martyred president while misty clouds concealed the moon. When the last
car had disappeared, clocks and watches began running again, although they
were now five to eight minutes behind. Everywhere on the road, the old-time
railroad men insisted, all timepieces were found to be behind because of
the Phantom Lincoln Funeral Train.
The phantom train never reaches it's destination.
This poster is 22 inches wide by 17 inches high, generous black ink lushly
printed on old-fashioned type parchment stock.
The image for this poster was created
with pen and ink on paper and offset printed.
No computers were used in the making of this poster, all drawn entirely by hand.
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