"In the Days of McKinley" By Margaret Leech
" The President's active participation in the congressional campaigns was
and event.(1898 I am sure just after the Spanish American War was
ending)Deafening cheers of Iowa, he moved to the thunderous welcome of Omaha
" then to St. Louis and Chicago. Spoke in Hastings Iowa.
May be the train went St. Joe to Humeston and up to Chariton then west via
Creston and Hastings on the way to Omaha
A year or so later he went to Calif. and spent time in San Francisco
sjh
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From: "Bill Hirt" <whirt@attglobal.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; <jlhayes@cpinternet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Fw: CBQ business cars and trains
> Rupert and Maureen wrote:
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> here are four pieces I am researching:
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> > 1. "Special Train for the President of the US", (Presidential Inaugural
train for President McKinley) operated on 'Burlington Route', KC, St. Joseph
and Council Bluffs RR, from Kansas City, MO to Omaha, NE on October 12,
1887.
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> The date and year for this can not be right. McKinley was elected
> president in November 1896. He was inaugurated in March 1897.
> Presidential elections in the 1880s were in 1880, 1884 and 1888.
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> If the train was a presidential train in 1887, Grover Cleveland was
> president then and it had to just be some kind of presidential
> excursion/tour train.
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> Bill
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