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Netherland royals on Chessie 29

President Eisenhower and his brother Milton on Chessie 29

Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands are helped out of an auto by Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams. They were transferring to special C&O Railway train where they were hosted to dinner by C&O President Walter Tuohy in his business car, Chessie 29. Queen Juliana was on a U.S. tour and had just visited Holland, Michigan (cohs-54801.JPG; 1952, courtesy of the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, archive # COHS- 54801).

Prince Albert II of Monaco at The Greenbrier

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