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OBAMA GOES FOR A RIDE: Barack Obama speaks with passengers on the train en route to Baltimore on Saturday.

OBAMA GOES FOR A RIDE: Barack Obama speaks with passengers on the train en route to Baltimore on Saturday.

Obama takes a train to New York, draws cheers

Barack Obama made a symbolic trip to the US capital ahead of his Tuesday inauguration as the nation's 44th president, traveling by train along a route that had been followed by Abraham Lincoln. Crowds braved subfreezing weather to cheer Obama's train on Saturday as it rolled south along the Eastern seaboard from Philadelphia to Washington. He will take the oath of office in three days, succeeding President George W Bush.

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