George H.W. Bush vignettes

Flag waving-crowds lined the tracks as a special funeral train carried the flag-draped body of former President George H.W. Bush to College Station, Texas, where he’ll be buried on the grounds of his presidential library.

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Thu., Dec. 6, 2018

People pay their respects as the train carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush passes Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, along the route from Spring to College Station, Texas.

David J. Phillip Associated Press
People pay their respects as the train carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush passes Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, along the route from Spring to College Station, Texas.

David J. Phillip Associated Press
People pay their respects as the train carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush passes Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, along the route from Spring to College Station, Texas.

David J. Phillip Associated Press
Police on horseback salute as the hearse carrying the flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush heads to the Union Pacific train facility Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, in Houston.

David J. Phillip Associated Press
People pay their respects as the train carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush passes through Navasota, Texas Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

Gerald Herbert Associated Press
People look from a building as they pay their respects as the train carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush passes through Navasota, Texas Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

Gerald Herbert Associated Press
Ana Garza, of Cypress, Texas, displays coins flattened by the memorial train carrying the casket of President George H.W. Bush when it passed through Pinehurst, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. On Thursday, that same 4,300-horsepower machine left a suburban Houston railyard loaded with Bush’s casket for his final journey after almost a week of ceremonies in Washington and Texas.

Nomaan Merchant Associated Press