Obama's historic train ride

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Obama's historic train ride

President-elect Barack Obama and his family ride the train from Philadelphia to Washington, stopping in Wilmington, Del., for Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his family.

Meeting law enforcement and railroad employees at Union Station, Barack Obama ends his inaugural train trip in Washington, where he begins a new journey as the 44th president Tuesday. Note the '44' on his limo's license plate.

Obama, far right, waves from the back of a train to the waiting crowd.

Obama was tracing the train route Abraham Lincoln took nearly a century and a half earlier.

Obama greets the crowd at a rally during a stop on his inaugural whistle stop train trip.

Obama hugs his wife Michelle Obama, who celebrated her 45th birthday Saturday.

President-elect Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife Michelle Obama, right, and Patricia Stiles of Parker, Colo., speaks at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia before his whistle stop train trip Saturday.

Obama kisses his daughter Sasha Obama, 7, before he speaking in Philaldelphia.

Obama looks at his daughter Malia during an event in Philadelphia.

Obama greets Amtrak conductor Noel Powell at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.

Four-year-old Hannah Edwards of Mount Holly, N.J., waves a flag as she and her family wait for a security check near the Wilmington, Del., train station, where Vice President-elect Joe Biden joins Obama on their trip to Washington.

Naja Grasty, 10, waits in the cold near the Wilmington train station

Malik Phillip, 9, left, and Aja Dye, 8, wait for the arrival of the Obama train outside the Wilmington train station.

Obama, with his wife step on stage in Philadelphia, where he began his train ride to the inauguration in D.C. Tuesday.

President-elect Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife Michelle Obama, waves during his inaugural whistle stop train trip in Wilmington , Del.

Onlookers are seen from inside the inaugural train as it passes through Claymont, Del.

Scores of people wait in Wilmington, Del., for the Obama inaugural train to arrive Saturday to pick up VP-elect Joe Biden before departing for Baltimore and Washington.

Bundled members of the crowd huddle under a blanket as they wait to greet the passing train in Claymont, Del.

Obama looks out from the back of a train at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.

Obama was to deliver a speech before as many as 100,000 at Baltimore's War Memorial Plaza.

Temperatures were in the single digits, but the energy in the room warmed the crowd.

Obama and Biden travel to Baltimore before reaching Washington later in the day.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden greets Obama in Wilmington.

The bundled crowd cheers as Obama's train approaches the Claymont Amtrak rail station in Delaware.

Obama waves to a crowd gathered at Claymont Station in Claymont, Del.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden, left, his wife Jill, President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, pose for photographs in Wilmington, Del.

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Meeting law enforcement and railroad employees at Union Station, Barack Obama ends his inaugural train trip in Washington, where he begins a new journey as the 44th president Tuesday. Note the '44' on his limo's license plate.

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