I had the chance this past weekend to visit the North Carolina Transportation Museum (aka Spencer Shops) for the Lincoln Funeral Train Exhibit and ride behind Leviathan. Here is a short video from the festivities:
Scott
Scott,
I loved the video. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Cool Video, Thanks for posting… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Scott
Have you seen her sister engine the York?
Nice video, Scott.
I was out there Sunday.
The Lincoln Funeral car is absolutely gorgeous.
Ralph
Nice video and cool subjects. The lincoln car is neat and the Leviathan is super sweet. They really knew how to spruce up the engines back then.
Beautiful loco and car.
What a timely post… My wife and I were at “Hildene” yesterday (Todd Lincoln’s summer home in Manchester, Vermont He was president of the Pullman Company) They have the Pullman Car “Sunbeam”. In conversation, the fate or current location of the funeral car came up… Last anyone there knew it belonged to Dr Durant. Thanks for the very timely post!
Since Bill likes to dig up old threads I thought I would do the same. I got some top secret spy pics from a top secret friend of mine.
I actually did help but not recently. I straightened the 1.5" cast iron drop pins on the shed doors after “someone” let “something” drift into the doors and bent the pins. They were brought to my shop one afternoon and the conversation kinda went like this just a cleaned up version.
Me…What do you want me to do with them?
Friend…Straighten them Dave!
Me…Just go get new pins!!
Friend …Look at them Dave they are over 100yrs old where are we gonna buy them!
Me…OK, lets try it.
Yes, one pin is still slightly off by about 1/4" but it works!
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Amazing loco. Are these pics recent, and does teh effort have anything to do with the NCR?
From an era when new locomotives were treated as objects of great pride and were proudly showed off and maintained immaculately.
Depends what you call recent? Is the First Saturday of November in the year of Two Thousand Twenty Five count as recent?
The York is her sister loco.