In 1854, the United States acquired roughly 30,000 square-miles from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase. This new Southern Corridor was ideal for train routes from Texas to California, and soon tracks were laid. Shipping goods by train was more efficient, and for desperate outlaws, robbing trains was high-risk and high-reward. Join us as Doug Hocking discusses the train heists throughout the southwest region during the turn of the twentieth century, and the robbers who pulled off these train jobs with daring, deceit, and plain dumb luck!
