What do you mean by the RFK train “unfortunate events?” I am curious cause I was only four (and not good at searching on web). On someone’s train journey (NOT Lincoln’s) I remember seeing at least one Conferderate flag being held. Not sure if Rev Dr MLK Jr had a train or not.
I don’t remember the exact details of the RFK train mishap, but it was some kind of crossing accident and one or more people killed or injured; of course this caused the train to run hours late.
The trip from New York to Washington, normally about four hours, took twice as long. Two bystanders who had jumped on the tracks in Elizabeth, New Jersey, were killed by a train passing in the other direction. The food ran out, the water ran out; finally, the liquor ran out. The thousand or so passengers stumbled off the train at Washington's Union Station shortly after 9 p.m., to the booming drums of the Navy Band.