QUESTIONS 41 – 47 REFER TO THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE.
3.
Following President Lincoln's assassination in 1865, the state of Illinois, Lincoln's
birthplace, wanted to transport the presidential casket in the finest fashion possible. The
Pullman Pioneer was the most elegant car around; in order to make the Pullman part of
the presidential funeral train in its run from Springfield to Chicago, the state cut down
station platforms and raised bridges in order to accommodate the luxurious railway car.
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The Pullman car greatly impressed the funeral party, which included Lincoln's successor
as president, General Ulysses S. Grant, and Grant later requested the Pioneer for a trip
from Detroit to Chicago.