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Some of the railroads that might have been traveled by the Funeral Train

This original trackage of the Hanover Branch Railroad became one of real historical interest. It carried the parties of President Abraham Lincoln and Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin from Hanover Junction to Gettysburg on November 18, 1869, where on November 19, President Lincoln delivered his now famous "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery. The Northern Central trains carried President Lincoln from Baltimore and Governor Curtin from Harrisburg, the two groups meeting at Hanover Junction and proceeding together on the Hanover Branch to Gettysburg.The Hanover Branch Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania on March 16, 1847. It extended from the connection with the Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad (later to become the Northern Central, and then in 1911, the Pennsylvania) at Hanover Junction to Hanover, Pa. It represents the oldest portion of the Western Maryland System. Letters of Patent for this first thirteen miles of the Western Maryland Railway were issued in Pennsylvania on October 18, 1849.
The railroad was extended from Hanover to Gettysburg in 1858, just prior to the Civil War, and to Ortanna, Pa. in 1885, with the name "Hanover Junction, Hanover, & Gettysburg Railroad."

Western Maryland                                                                                                                    The Hanover Branch Railroad                                                                                              Nashville of the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad
Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton             
Baltimore & Ohio                                                                                                                Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad
Chesapeake & Ohio/               
Chicago and Eastern Illinois                            
Louisville and Nashville                           
Chicago, Indianapolis, & Louisville                              
Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis  Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac 
The Buffalo Creek Railroad Company
Central Indiana Railway Company
 Lehigh and New England Railway Company 
Central Railroad  
Wharton and Northern Railroad Company  of New Jersey The Chicago River and Indiana Railroad Company                                                                                                           
Erie Railroad Company                                                                                                   Lackawanna &  The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company
 Baltimore and Eastern                             
 Railroad Company- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago                             
  and St.Louis Railway The New York Central Railroad Company-                      
 The New York, New Haven and  Penn Central              
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company                        
New York, Chicago & St. Louis 
Norfolk and Petersburg\c.1865         
South Side Railroad\c.1865            
Virginia & Tennessee\c.1865            
Atlantic, Mississippi, & Ohio\c.1881
Richmond & Danville\1894  
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia/1894 
Cincinnati, New Orleans  & Texas Pacific
Ann Arbor\Detroit, Toledo and Ironton
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line                            
New York Susquehanna and Western
oledo, Peoria & Western {once part of AT&SF}
Atlanta and Saint Andrews Bay Railroad (The Bay Line)
New York, Ontario & Western (bankrupt)->( Erie
Lehigh and New England Railroad (bankrupt)->(Lehigh and New England Railway Compny
L&HR (bankrupt)->( New York, Susquhanna and Western
1865-Bear Creek Railroad Company
1869-Shenango and Allegheny Railroad  1888-Pittsburgh,Shenango and 
Lake Erie Railroad Company
 Kansas City Southern
Duluth Missabe and Iron Range
St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt)
Chicago & Northwestern '  Southern Pacific

Chicago South Shore & South Bend (now government owned)
Detroit & Mackinac  Lake States Railway