No. 748 was the car that carried President Roosevelt, a bulletproof Packard car, and two Secret Service cars to Warm Springs, Georgia on Roosevelt’s final train trip before he died on April 12 ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt died April 12, 1945, at his retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia, and was transported back to Washington via a funeral train.

FDR’s Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance By Robert Klara Palgrave Macmillan 272 pp., $27 Loading... What are you reading? By Terry Hartle.

FDR’s 1932 campaign turned a train into a stage for calm leadership when the country needed it most. Years later, Truman revived the whistle-stop tour to defy the odds and take his message directly to ...