re: Bush Funeral (non-political version)

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Kinda cool they are using a train.

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The locomotive is number 4141. Union Pacific commissioned it in 2005 at Bush's presidential library in Bush's honor. The locomotive has Bush's name painted on the side with the presidential seal and is painted in Air Force One's livery. It's been a working locomotive since then and has returned to Texas to carry the president the last few miles to his grave. Here's a picture of it hauling freight.



I'd bet that long ago Bush and his people worked with UP on this as a plan to bring back the old tradition of a presidential funeral train. It allows more people to be part of the procession by lining the tracks along the way and it just seems more dignified somehow. It also wouldn't surprise me if UP decommissions the locomotive and it ends up on permanent display at the library.