Re: (erielack) Fw: The Ghost Train

[JJordan <eltrainmaster_@_copper.net>]

Oh my God!  They buried the whole train??

- -Joe Jordan

At 10:32 PM 3/30/05 -0500, Jon Scaptura wrote:
>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?
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>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
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>Ever hear anything  about this ???
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>  - tim -
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>-----Original Message-----
>Subject: The Ghost Train
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>  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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