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President Roosevelt’s body was transported by train to Washington D.C. and then on to his estate in Hyde Park for burial. Thousands of mourners lined the tracks to say goodbye.

Here, images of FDR’s funeral train en route to New York, April 1945.

Source: docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

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    Train trips are very useful!
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    1945
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    People look sad as his...Washington.. Images are good
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    someone photoshop me into this mourning crowd
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    I don’t understand why he had to die on my birthday all I ever did was love him
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