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President Obama on a train
President-elect Barack Obama emerges from a train on January 17, 2009, in Wilmington, Delaware, en route to Washington on a Pullman Georgia 300 railcar. Former President Abraham Lincoln took a similar pre-inaugural whistle-stop tour in 1861.