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It is fairly safe to say that the campaign train is now extinct. The major party candidates clearly have found that buses provide far greater flexibility and especially since this current campaign involves nine diverse states.
The Obama campaign made use of trains during 2008 and of course "came to town" aboard an Amtrak train handled by P-42 #44 (44th president) and #120 (January 20).
The campaign train was once extinct before, namely during 1956, but for the 1960 campaigns both candidates recognised the capacity a train had to "pull the folk down to the depot".
So, baring some last minute strategy change by either major Presidential candidate, it is "rest in peace" for the campaign train.
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Maybe if a vehicle manufacturer grafted the rear platform of a Pullman observation onto the back of a bus . . .
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Double bravo!! (Especially for rhyming "extinct" and "hijinx." Ogden Nash would be proud.)
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I'm simply impressed that someone managed to use Keokuk in prose!
-------------------- David Pressley
Advocating for passenger trains since 1973!
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