Silly Xmas present

On a Friday in 1865, during the wee hours of the morning, a crowd began forming at a rail station in Washington, D.C.
A Springfield, Illinois-bound train was scheduled to depart and, by 8 a.m., some ten thousand people had gathered to watch the departure of the grandest funeral procession the nation had ever seen, one that would include stops in six states, a dozen major cities, and that would pass through more than four hundred communities.
One week earlier, on 14 April, the life of Abraham Lincoln had been claimed by a bullet fired by John Wilkes Booth. The procession was the first national commemoration by rail for a US president, and it would be witnessed by millions of people who poured out to mourn the passing of Father Abraham, one of history's most esteemed figures.
Now, 150 years later, Lionel has teamed with historians to recreate the majesty of that historic trip. The Lincoln Funeral Train is one of the most extensively researched and exquisitely designed 1:48 scale model train sets ever produced— a brass and die-cast locomotive construction replicating the finest detail of the actual Lincoln funeral train. While the train is available only to members of the Lionel RailRoaders Club, for a limited time Lionel is offering a free thirty-day trial membership.