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In a dark twist of fate, he never got to ride it anyway at least, not alive. Lincoln s only journey aboard The United States came after his assassination. In the spring of 1865, the rail car crudely stripped of its freshly fixed furnishings, and now fitted with a portrait of the president at the front of the engine wound its way through some 180 cities between Washington D.C. and Springfield, Illinois in a somber kind of reverse inauguration trip. Lincoln s presidential legacy was bookended by rail travel. And between his inauguration and death, he d signed legislation initiating the transcontinental railroad a network that would link the East and West Coasts, swell trade and galvanize the very ideal of American unification.

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