Re: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident

["jpslhedgpeth via groups.io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>]

that's the Conductor with the 'flat cap" sitting at his desk doing his "book work"   Note the mop hanging there in the corner and the rear brakeman climbing into or out of the cupola.  Those crews in those days kept their Waycars scrupulously clean..They tended to spend more time in those  'buggies' than they did at home.  Those men wearing their  "Stetsons  are obviously Drovers but of a more "refined" persuasion than those in the photo Louis Z. sent a couple days ago.  

Pete   

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From: Douglas Harding <iowacentralrr@gmail.com>
To: CBQ@groups.io
Sent: Fri, Jan 22, 2021 10:42 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident

Many railroads sold passenger accommodations for freight trains. Passengers rode in the caboose with the conductor. Or if it was a mixed train, there was a coach or combine for passengers.

 

Fast Freight may be a misnomer. Your date 1897, anything faster than a walk might be considered a fast freight. If a stock train, no doubt it was picking up livestock, ie cattle, at each stop. Livestock was a top priority commodity. A dedicated stock train would probably not handle any other freight, so only made one stop in each town, at the stockpens.

 

Here is a 1930s photo of more sedate cowboys riding inside a CBQ caboose. https://cdm17097.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/CB/id/978/rec/25

Photo taken in Cody Wyoming after looking cattle. Nice selection of photos of the stockyards, loading process, etc. in this collection.

 

Doug Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Dave Burk
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:14 AM
To: cbq@groups.io
Subject: [CBQ] 1897 Chalco incident

 

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:

1. 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?
2. 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

 

 

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