Train trip for president-elect poses security issues

By Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) - President-elect Barack Obama's January 17 train trip from Philadelphia to Washington - intended to make the inauguration the most open and accessible in history - is also presenting the U.S. Secret Service with miles and miles and miles of security problems.

The Presidential Inauguration Committee says that - in addition to well-publicized "whistle stops" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland - the public will have the opportunity to view the train at other locations along its 137-mile route.

But the committee thus far has not indicated where those sites will be, and the Secret Service has yet to release what security restrictions will be in place.