2:05 p.m. ET, December 6, 2018
George H.W. Bush is taking the "Bush 4141" train
The flag-draped casket of former US President George H.W. Bush is carried by a joint services military honor guard to a Union Pacific train.
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President George H.W. Bush is on his way to his final resting place. His casket was just loaded onto the a Union Pacific train led by a locomotive dubbed the "Bush 4141" — a train that was built to honor the President's life.
The funeral train will embark on a 70-mile route, taking Bush from Spring, Texas, to Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, the site of the Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Bush will be laid to rest at the library, where both former first lady Barbara Bush and their late daughter Robin are buried.
The Bush 4141 was commissioned to honor the former president in 2005. It's painted to resemble Air Force One with a white body, a presidential seal and and long vertical bars of blue.
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