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(The following appeared on The News Journal website on January 14, 2009.)

WILMINGTON, Del. — The Wilmington train station will be closed from 10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. this Saturday, Amtrak officials announced today.

The closing is to accommodate President-elect Barack Obama’s rail trip to the nation’s capital.

Obama’s trip begins in Philadelphia, and there is a stop in Wilmington to pick up Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his family.

They will make a stop in Baltimore along the way to Washington.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee has not released information regarding the trip or any public accommodations at the stops.