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Article: Saddam's luxury train to return to service
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- August 19, 2008
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Saddam Hussein's private luxury train, equipped with chandeliers and Italian-made curtains, is being put into public service next month to help ease a train shortage, Iraqi rail officials said Tuesday.
The 23-carriage French-built train was kept in a secret location for three decades and shielded from the widespread looting that followed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Starting in September, the train will ferry passengers between Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, said Karim al-Tamimi, a spokesman for Iraq's rail system.
He said the train, which also has three locomotives, was moved recently from a rail yard in Baghdad to the city's main railway station.
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