who was the first president to ride a train
While John Quincy Adams was the first ex-president to ride a train in 1830, the first sitting president to travel by train was Andrew Jackson, when he rode the B & O from Ellicott's Mills to Baltimore in 1833. The first president-elect to ride a passenger train to an inauguration was William Henry Harrison, 8 years later. Harrison holds several other firsts. He was the first presidential candidate to campaign by train.