Hello, I have two questions about an incident that happened in Chalco, Neb. In late June of 1897. A passenger on a train referred to in news articles as the Burlington fast freight (sometimes called a stock train but that definitely had at least some boxcars) was shot during an attempted robbery as he got off the train. Here are my questions: - If a person had a pass to ride a freight train, where would he or she ride? Would a freight train have a specific place for passengers?
- For a train called a fast freight, this particular train stopped in Lincoln, then again in Ashland, and again in Chalco, then in Omaha. Why so many stops? I would have thought a fast freight would have been straight through to a destination.
Thanks for any help. I’m pretty ignorant about trains—working on true crime. Thanks! DB Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _._,_._,_
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