Template:Did you know nominations/Southern Railway 1401

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 20:46, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Southern Railway 1401

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... that Southern Railway 1401 was one of the eight locomotives that hauled the funeral train of U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt? Source: Bryant Jr., H. Stafford (October 1950). "Ps-4". Trains. Vol. 10, no. 12. Kalmbach Publishing. pp. 20–26. Page 24 , Davis, Burke (1985). The Southern Railway: Roads of the Innovators (1st ed.). The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1636-1. page 213
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Improved to Good Article status by Trains13 (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 19:44, 18 January 2023 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: IceWelder [✉] 14:20, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

I was looking for more funeral train references.Source. Apparently someone wrote a book titled FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance. Bruxton (talk) 20:45, 23 January 2023 (UTC)