(erielack) Fw: The Ghost Train

["Jon Scaptura" <jon_@_scaptura.com>]

This was forwarded to me by a co-worker who noticed the Erie and Lackawanna 
photos on my office wall. This is the first I've heard of this. Anyone else 
hear this story?

Jon Scaptura
Endicott, NY




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From: T B []
Sent: Wed 3/30/2005 7:41 AM
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Subject: FW: The Ghost Train


Ever hear anything  about this ???


  - tim -

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Subject: The Ghost Train



  Did you ever hear the legend of the Abraham Lincoln Ghost Train that was 
spotted in the Binghamton area?  Apparently back in the day, Lincoln's body 
was taken through all the big cities.  It went thru Philly to New York, and 
then thru Buffalo to Chicago to eventually get to Illinois where it was 
buried. Looking at my Erie/Lackawanna map on the wall, the oooollld line 
from back in the day would have taken the train from New York, through Port 
Jervis, and Calicoon, eventually through Binghamton, west on the line 
through Johnson City, Endicott, Waverly, Elmira, etc.  A story I read said 
there was a cop on duty late one night, and he parked along the tracks, I 
believe it was Vestal, as I remember.  Through the mist he saw a train 
coming, but the light wasn't the usual bright light.   The engine came out 
of the darkness, and it was an old steam engine, draped in bunting, and 
there were several old time passenger cars.   In the last car he could see 
the coffin in the window.  He thought he was going insane.  He mentioned it 
to a friend  who told him it was the anniversary of the night the train came 
through there.  That date is coming up. Lincoln was shot April 14th, died 
the 15th.  And it would be a matter of a few days until the train rode 
through Binghamton.

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