Residents in rural Texas will bid farewell to former President Bush, who will make his way to his final resting place in a locomotive built especially for him.
Former President George H. W. Bush will get a Texas send-off Thursday before arriving at his final resting place in College Station.
After a service at his church in Houston, Bush will be transported to a train station in nearby Spring, Texas where he will be moved into Union Pacific Engine 4141, a train built especially for the 41st President.
Bush will traverse wooded country through Harris, Montgomery, Waller and Grimes counties before reaching Brazos County and College Station, where he’ll be taken to the Bush Library at Texas A&M University, and his final resting place next to his late wife, Barbara, and their daughter, Robin, who died at age 4 from leukemia.
Bush will be just the eighth U. S. President to ride a train on his funeral procession. He follows Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, James Garfield, William McKinley, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower.
Bush began taking train rides as part of his 1992 reelection campaign.
“I love the American people, and this train trip is fantastic,” he said at the time, according to a report by the Austin American-Statesman.
