Posted on 12/02/2018 3:59:24 PM PST by Mean Daddy
HOUSTON — When the curtain parted in College Station, Tex., revealing a two-toned blue locomotive standing nearly 16 feet tall and bearing the number 4141 in his honor, former president George H.W. Bush looked around excitedly, his face breaking into a smile.
One word left his lips: Wow.
Thirteen years later, that same Union Pacific locomotive will escort the 41st president to his final resting place in College Station on Thursday afternoon after funeral ceremonies in Washington and Houston.
The train carrying his remains will leave a Union Pacific Railroad facility in Spring, a community north of Houston, and travel the 70 miles to College Station. Bush will be buried there, alongside his late wife and daughter, on the site of his presidential library at Texas A&M University.
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I wonder if JFK will be at the Pearly Gates to welcome “41” in or to turn him away?
Sorry, but I read his lips.
Lying. socialist POS.
Who says either one of them made it? Unless either of them were saved they are not there.
“How does this engine avoid all the graffiti/vandalism I see on every other piece of rolling stock?”
I believe it’s pretty much been in storage.
Beautiful pics… what an awesome machine. Yep, a very classy carriage to the final resting place.
Thanks for posting these guys!
A commemorative locomotive, like those commemorative motorcycles, just to be taken out of storage for special occasions?
Nice.
Pretty train. Then again, maybe I’m just liking the faded MoPac motif. Or just imagining things.
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