Faculty and students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln held a funeral march Wednesday to protest proposed budget cuts ...

Santa will trade his usual sleigh for steel rails and a horse-drawn carriage Friday night as the new Gettysburg Railway helps ...

Long before highways and aircraft, the dead traveled by rail. In the 19th century, overcrowded cities turned to funeral trains to carry coffins and mourners to remote cemeteries, transforming grief ...

Let’s talk about death, baby! No, this isn’t the start of a morbid Salt-N-Pepa parody—it’s an invitation to explore one of Houston’s most fascinatingly offbeat attractions: the National Museum of ...

You know how they say everything’s bigger in Texas? Well, that includes our fascination with the afterlife, apparently. Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a 35,000-square-foot building ...

The Lincoln Funeral Train, pictured here, traveled through Hancock County on this date in 1865. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train entered Hancock County at Charlottesville, continuing ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death is two years away, and two Illinois-based nonprofit groups are planning to commemorate his burial train trip back to Illinois.

A copy of New York Central Railroad timetable for the Lincoln funeral train for April 27, 1865 from Rochester to Buffalo. Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train car, as seen in Chicago, 1865. The train made ...

One hundred sixty years ago this week, the nation was in mourning following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 21, 1865, the president’s body began its journey from the capital to his ...

BARTLETT, Tenn. (WREG) — A limo carrying a family en route to a funeral was struck by a train on Thursday in Tennessee. Police in Bartlett confirmed there were multiple injuries in the crash. Aishia ...