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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-02-2013
That's an excellent initial estimate, Joe. You are pretty close, but that's not it.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-02-2013
If you are thinking of the whole train (9 cars+gaps in between) it should have been much longer, I'd guess 150 feet.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-02-2013
Hi Eva. I am not sure about the length of the entire train, but I have a little book that has the length of the car that carried the president's remains.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-02-2013
Then my final guess will be less than 40 feet, maybe 30 feet.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-02-2013
Joe was closer.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-02-2013
Hint #1: It was less than 50 feet.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-02-2013
My very last guess of the remaining 9 options (unless you're not asking for decimal places): 45 feet.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Laurie Verge - 05-02-2013
OK, I'll take a stab at the middle ----35 feet?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-02-2013
Close enough, Eva. It was 48 feet according to page 6 of Mr. Lincoln's Railroad Car by H. Robert Slusser. This is a wonderful publication and contains photos of the car and its furnishings that are difficult to find in any other source.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-04-2013
What is this?
Hint #1: It has to do with Robert Lincoln.
![[Image: hastodowithrobertlincoln.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/hastodowithrobertlincoln.jpg)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-04-2013
Philip Exeter Academy in NH?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-04-2013
Kudos, Eva. That is correct. Robert Lincoln attended Phillips Exeter Academy in 1859 after he failed the Harvard entrance exams.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-04-2013
This time I was sure to be wrong because of the bike...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-04-2013
The sketch is from 1892.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-06-2013
Who said about Abraham Lincoln that he "resembles Louis XVI more than any other ruler in history"?