News about the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train

[RJNorton]

Thank you to Joe Di Cola for sending these photos. His note read:

"Attached are pics of the Abraham Lincoln Funeral Train and Lincoln Statue at Troy, OH I took on Friday, September 11. I had the presence of mind to take Scott T’s book off of my shelves and he signed it for me. He lives here and was the guide through car. Gene and Joy Cook were here, too."

I tried to find some information on the statue and found this in the Dayton Daily News:

"This year’s exhibit, centered on a monumental 30-foot, 40,000 pound bronze sculpture featuring President Abraham Lincoln is expected to be even bigger, offering “a huge opportunity for Troy,” said Katherine Hayes, executive director of the Troy Main Street downtown advocacy organization.

The sculpture, “Return Visit” by Seward Johnson, is on loan from the Seward Johnson Atelier Inc. and brought to town by a Troy Foundation grant. Johnson’s life-size bronze sculptures of people in every day activities have dotted the downtown in earlier exhibits."

The figure with Lincoln represents a contemporary "common man."