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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 17 > On track to Jan. 20 traveling by train

On track to Jan. 20 traveling by train

Obama's path to his inauguration begins at a train station in Philadelphia. In retracing part of Lincolns journey by railcar, the president-elect hopes to highlight more of the historical imagery behind his political hero.

By Mike Dorning / The Bulletin
January 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama makes his ceremonial arrival in Washington today amid the same imagery that he used to kick off his presidential campaign: the spirit of Abraham Lincoln.

Obama travels to the capital by re-tracing the final stages of the train trip Lincoln made to assume the....

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