Bush took one last ride through Texas before reaching his final destination. Named Union Pacific 4141, the train traveled 70 miles through Magnolia, Navasota and other small towns, led by a 4,300-horsepower locomotive painted blue, gray and white to echo the colors of Air Force One. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., the funeral train — the Union Pacific locomotive and several rail cars behind it — glided onto the Texas A&M campus, where several hundred spectators who had waited in the rain for hours cheered. A special train, 4141, took George Bush to his final resting place in College Station George H.W. Amen.”Arranged for a man who had been America’s oldest living ex-president, Mr. Bush’s locomotive procession gave his long-planned memorial services a throwback touch, evoking the presidential funeral trains for Abraham Lincoln in 1865, Franklin Roosevelt in 1945 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1969.
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Bush/Thank you for a lifetime of service.”Laura Durie, 24, a master’s student in international relations at the university’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, was one of the several hundred A&M students and other guests invited to the train arrival ceremony. news Politics.
The president and his family will exit the train cars and travel up George Bush Drive to the library. People stood by the tracks as the train’s horn blared, waving, taking pictures and holding aloft American flags. Bush, a World War II aviator from the East Coast, came to Texas in the summer of 1948 to make a name for himself in the oil business, driving to the West Texas town of Odessa in a red two-door Studebaker. According to UP, the locomotive’s rear panel features elements from Air Force One’s wings and tail, including the American flag and sweeping lines of forward motion representing progress.For the first time in nearly 50 years, a president will be carried by train for his funeral.To see the route, please click on the attached document.The train will stop on the tracks near Kyle Field around 3:25 p.m. Mrs. Bush's Story Time. And in our grief, let us smile knowing that Dad is hugging Robin and holding Mom’s hand again.” “The George Herbert Walker Bush who survived that fiery fall into the waters of the Pacific, three-quarters of a century ago, made our lives and the lives of nations, freer, better, warmer and nobler. Ginger Whitaker. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- After spending years sitting in waiting, President George H.W. The rail line will come into College Station through Navasota and along Wellborn Road.time that Union Pacific painted a locomotive in colors other than the traditional UP “Armour Yellow” paint. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/us/bush-texas-funeral-burial.html Jul. Mr. and Mrs. Bush toured it at an event held at Texas A&M, posing for pictures in which they peeked out of the window of the cab, above the side emblazoned with “4141.” Inside the cab, Union Pacific officials, including Mike Iden, then an engineering executive for the company, explained to Mr. Bush how the train operated.
They expressed his moral character and they reflected his decency. “Obviously, 41 is the namesake of our school, and he really inspired a lot of us to go into public service,” Ms. Durie said.
The Oak Ridge Boys, a country group that first sang for Mr. Bush in 1983 when he was vice president, sang “Amazing Grace” a cappella.
“He would look at me and he would say, ‘Baker, if you’re so smart, why am I the president and you’re not?’”Eight of his grandsons led the military pallbearers who carried Mr. Bush’s coffin into the church, and later his eldest grandson — George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner — spoke in a touching eulogy of his grandfather’s horseshoe games with the family and the Secret Service, and of how it had been “the honor of a lifetime to share his name.” Mr. Bush’s friends and relatives described a man who walked softly through the postwar pages of American history, who was defined by service to others and who, one cold day in Houston, gave a young coatless usher at St. Martin’s the coat off his back.Then, for about two short miles, he took his funeral train out for a spin.Amid the pageantry and prayers, and the anthems sung by St. Martin’s choir, there was a distinct country twang to the ceremony, an homage to the adopted state of the Connecticut-raised former president. Bush's funeral car from his funeral in Houston to his burial in College Station.