Extra Credit Questions

[RJNorton]

That's an excellent initial estimate, Joe. You are pretty close, but that's not it.

[Eva Elisabeth]

If you are thinking of the whole train (9 cars+gaps in between) it should have been much longer, I'd guess 150 feet.

[RJNorton]

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.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Then my final guess will be less than 40 feet, maybe 30 feet.

[RJNorton]

Joe was closer.

[RJNorton]

Hint #1: It was less than 50 feet.

[Eva Elisabeth]

My very last guess of the remaining 9 options (unless you're not asking for decimal places): 45 feet.

[Laurie Verge]

OK, I'll take a stab at the middle ----35 feet?

[RJNorton]

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.

[RJNorton]

What is this?

Hint #1: It has to do with Robert Lincoln.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Philip Exeter Academy in NH?

[RJNorton]

Kudos, Eva. That is correct. Robert Lincoln attended Phillips Exeter Academy in 1859 after he failed the Harvard entrance exams.

[Eva Elisabeth]

This time I was sure to be wrong because of the bike...

[RJNorton]

The sketch is from 1892.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Who said about Abraham Lincoln that he "resembles Louis XVI more than any other ruler in history"?