Lincoln Ghost Train Night in Hyde Park on 4/23/2026

[Linda Anderson]

The Hyde Park Railroad Museum will hold the Lincoln Ghost Train Night on Thursday, April 23, 2026. It will commemorate the ghost train with an "Evening of Legends and Lore." The ghost train is said to pass through Hyde Park, NY on the same route the Lincoln funeral train followed in 1865.

https://hydeparkstation.org/events

There's a historic marker at the train station.

https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-m...RIL%2025**

"Inscription
GHOST TRAIN
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S
FUNERAL TRAIN PASSED THROUGH
HYDE PARK ON APRIL 25, 1865.
HIS GHOST TRAIN OFTEN SEEN
HERE AT NIGHT ON APRIL 25.
NEW YORK FOLKLORE
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2024"

"Shortly before 8pm on April 25, the president’s funeral train passed through the town of Hyde Park. Ever since this momentous occasion, a story has been told of an eerie event that occurs along the tracks in Hyde Park each night on April 25. If the moon is out, clouds are said to obscure it. A black carpet seems to roll down the tracks and deadens all sound. Then, Lincoln’s funeral train, adorned in black crepe is seen slowing inching its way north to Albany. This is not the only story told of sightings of the ghost of Lincoln’s funeral train. One will hear of similar stories that have been passed along in communities located along the train’s path that still resonate with locals to this day."

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Presidential Museum (and his home) and the Vanderbilt Mansion are also located in Hyde Park.

[David Lockmiller]

Information paragraph reads in part:

"The train had the right of the track over all other trains and ran at a slow rate of speed through the towns and villages it passed, giving mourners a moment to pay their respects to the president."