Comments on: FDR train pauses at ‘Noplace in the Carolinas’ http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/04/14/fdr-train-pauses-at-noplace-in-the-carolinas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fdr-train-pauses-at-noplace-in-the-carolinas Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Sun, 19 May 2013 18:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kevin Cherry http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/04/14/fdr-train-pauses-at-noplace-in-the-carolinas/comment-page-1/#comment-24628 Kevin Cherry Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:01:27 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=7405#comment-24628 The Salisbury Post has a great article about the train stopping to change crews in Salisbury.

The Spencer Lions Club asked one of the gaurds if its members could place a wreath on Roosevelt’s casket. Mrs. Roosevelt said that they could.

When I was local history librarian in Salisbury a few years ago, I had the pleasure of retrieving a box of materials from a gentleman’s home. In it, was the black-bordered thank you note from the White House for that wreath.

I also had the pleasure of meeting the man who was the brakeman on the funeral train. He still lived in Salisbury at the time.

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