Train Robbery in the Old West
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A guy sat next to me on the train. He pulled out a photo of his wife and said, "She's beautiful, isn't she?" I said, "If you think she is beautiful, you should see my missus." He said, "Why? Is she a stunner?" I said, "No, she's an optician!"
HAHA!
Are you a dad?
@@ArizonaGhostriders i thought robbers waved a red light to stop the train that they were going to rob
@@eliotreader8220 I'm sure some did. There wasn't just one way to stop a train.
I robbed a train, once... But the Toys R Us loss prevention agent stopped me at the door and made me put it back.
HHAAAA!
I remember, as a lad, going to Six Flags over Greorgia. In the 70's & 80's they had an old west village. They would put on regular shows (dancing girls) & had gun fights! They still have a train that circles the amusement park. 🎢 Back in its hay day, there were gun fights at a train stop. It was great fun for the kids and adults! Now, I hope to enjoy it again with my grandkids! 🚂🚃🚃🚃
Had the same thing at dog patch in the 80a
Had the same thing at dog patch in Arkansas back in the 80s
Fun!
Unfortunately, at Six Flags over Georgia now, the gunfights are for real.
Went to Six Flags in Texas in the early 90's, they had an old west gun fight show then as well
"Robin Hood" more like "Hoods out Robbin' Lee Marvin, great way to start a Saturday! Thanks for the visit Santee
Any time!
Wasn't expecting the reno gang to come up today! I live in the town where they're buried, and had to do an essay on them when I was in grade school
They sure didn't....hang around long. Sorry.
@@ArizonaGhostriders 😂 they really got hung out to dry
Thanks again Santee & Co. When I was a kid in the 70s there was the Tweetsie Raliroad that you could ride through Western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountain range . It never got robbed because the only loot was video game tokens . There used to be a kiddie train in Duncan Park , Spartanburg S.C. that I rode as a child . Sadly , one day it crashed and a couple of children lost their lives . It never chugged again and the rails were torn out .
Tragic.
"Use enough dynamite there, Butch?" The cow adds to the ambience. Use the "moo"! 😁
😃
Good work Santee😊
Thank You!
April 10th marks the 146th anniversary of the Sam Bass train robbery here in Mesquite, Texas. His gang was hoping to rob $30,000 from the express car. Three of his gang were shot in the attempt, and all they got away with was $152 in coin.
Cool history, eh?
Saturday morning good coffee and Arizonaghostriders video. Perfect. Thank you.
Thank You!
Got some Arbuckle coffee, doing some writing, smoking a pork shoulder, and a new episode of AZ Ghostriders. Life is good.
How do you keep the pork shoulder lit?...
@@mikereinhardt4807lol, I see what you did there.
Awesome, thanks!
The Firefly Train Heist episode is great fun. I highly recommend it.
Thank You!
Now I’m thinking of two movies: 1) The Train Robbers, with John Wayne, Ricardo Montelban, Ben Johnson, and Ann Margaret; and The Great Train Robbery about the one in Britain in the 20th Century.
You’re thinking of Buster with Phil Collins? The British film?
@@markunger1098 is that a 1960s film?
Two great films!!
Great episode Santee! I was on the Georgetown Loop RR back in 2018. They did a train robbery. I was wearing one of my Civil War hats and they ignored me! 😅🤣😂 Have a great weekend! Cheers!
I have a new historian coming into the park from that RR. I'll ask him if he did train robberies then.
Another great video! The ear ringing after the ghostly shotgun blast was a nice touch.
Thank You!
My Grandpa hopped a freight train once. Funnily I made wanted posters of him for that exact reason. He's a regular outlaw!
Cool!
Well, at least you keept on track and didn't derail
Picked up steam in the end
Happy Easter eve Santee and Arizona ghostriders!! Was wondering could you cover Church in the old west?
You as well. I did do one on religion!
Happy Easter.
I had fun here naming the films that the clips came from!
Good! I'll always fill in what you can't find.
You really built up a lot of steam on this one and railed it right along. Got a bang out of it.
Just keeping it rail.
Glad you found the clip. This was great.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks.
I always loved how Butch Cassidy and Sundance got to know the man's name in the train's mail car. They were on a first name basis after a while. No matter what, he was going to do his job and the boys came to be concerned about his well being. Even though they were going to rob that train. LOL. Talk about dedication on both sides. :)) It's a long time favorite movie of mine.
Very good movie.
Santee, Love it. Thank you very much for another Great Old West content video. You and Mrs. Pew Pew have a beautiful and blessed Happy Easter weekend. Your Gunslinger Brother
Same to you!
I need to get back to Old Tucson. I love that place. I know that most of it is not real at all, but it is the backdrop of my life as a boy and even now. Those desperados of the old days were awfully creative at getting some cash for themselves. Makes me wonder why they never made better choices after a windfall like that. I guess the old adage "If You Didn't Earn It, You Didn't Learn It" is so true. Thanks Santee. Another fun Saturday morning activity.
You're welcome!
GREAT VIDEO ON A GREAT SUBJECT.MY LATE AUNT CAME FROM ARIZONA AND HER GREAT -GREAT UNCLES WERE THE BURROW BROTHERS WHO ALSO ROBBED TRAINS BACK THEN.SHE TOLD ME BEDTIME STORIES ALL ABOUT THEIR EXPLOITS. HOPR YOU AND FAMILY HAVE A GREAT EASTER WEEKEND. GOD BLESS
Thank You! You have a happy Easter.
Going to the range, oh yeah, going to the range. A happy hello from Missouri!
Yeehaw!
I live right across the road from Roaring Camp RR. Nothing to steal but mighty pretty country.
Nice!!!
Great show has always my Saturday is almost complete, thank you guys and keep up!
Glad you enjoy it!
Cowboy coffee and Arizona Ghostriders. Good morning
How do you make cowboy coffee
@@TexasNationalist1836 handful of grounds in a boiling coffee pot. Let sit, then add a tiny bit of cold water to let the grounds settle.
You as well!
Happy Easter, Santee and all of the Ghostriders!!
You as well.
Great video Santee and I always enjoy your history background. When I was a boy we had stagecoach robberies out in Brooklyn Michigan, they had a old westtown.
Wow!! It's still around. It's called Stagecoach Stop and now it's a haunted Halloween attraction.
So very awsomely interestingly informative video, I really liked and enjoyed it, I learned alot about train robberies from the old west frontier and got a lot of inspiration for my old west frontier, retro video game's, retro eras, Mesopotamian mythology and mythological history, metaphysical, philosophical, early eologic time periods and parapsychological mythos projects' Mysteriarch Mythos series Great job and well done, keep up the great work. I'm definitely going to add so e train robbery scenes to the stories in my mythos series projects, that are going to be a collection of theories and hypothesis documents that will be half fiction and half nonfiction with some story elements. Today I'll bevworking on writing one of my creative theory crafting stories, which will be set on a Mesopotamia and old west frontier inspired island known own as The MidRule Isles/The MidRulian Archipelago and another story will feature some of the gods and goddesses from Mesopotamian mythology.
Lofty goals that you can reach, Chelsea.
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks. Not to long ago I got done gathering all the character names that my stories needed from two baby names videos and now I'm ready to give the four newer characters names finally. I'm also getting ready to find some interesting videos for my research, learning and inspiration for my story notes that I already started writing this morning.
Awesome video Santee. Thanks for all the history. Have a great weekend. :)
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow that tinnitus ring is super accurate, oh wait that mine still going. 😅
HAHA! Not really funny, since I have it, too.
In Southern California they had Knott's Berry farm lots of stagecoach robbers and shootouts and train Robin going on there it was great. Thanks for another amazing video. They're just over too soon. 🤠
Very cool! They still have it!
A long-overdue clinic on a subject that's had the factual points pass into popular mythology. Thank you VERY much for this; gives the Referee for our Old West RPG group some more options for when the bad guys (and it could be us or NPCs) decide to put the boots to Union Pacific again. Always appreciated and please keep these coming.
You're welcome. Enjoy the game.
Always enjoy you mentioning Cousin Jesse in your videos. Love the hat in this episode. Would look good with an officer's hat chord.
Thanks. I actually reshaped it a bit after filming.
5 things I have to talk about, santee 1 great video santee I love trains 2 did they have chocolate Easter eggs in america in the 1800s 4 santee please make more youtube shorts there really good
Thank You! Yes, in the 1870s
Mexican Train Conductor: “Big boulder on track, so train stop, but soldiers on train so bandits have big surprise waiting for them, not-many-passengers-get-killed.” (LOL! Like, “one of our better days on this run”) -Treasure of the Sierra Madre
HAH!
Knott’s Berry Farm’s Train ride is usually held up by villains these days (hide your valuables)😊
HA!
When I was a kid, there was a theme park named Frontier Village. All old west, store fronts, rides. They ran an old steam train and had robberies, then a shoot-out in a field as the robbers tried to escape. It was a great place for a kid to have fun. That started my interest in the old west. That and my dad always watching westerns and showing us fast draw.
Must be from the bay! I never got to go before it's u fortunate demise but have seen videos and heard stories. My favorite being they had a fishing competition or something of the like, and the winner was crowned "Master Baiter" lmao
@nachoman408 yeah, at the time we lived in San Jose in the 60s it was still a decent place to live. I remember they had a fishing hole, but we never tried it. I always liked the lost Dutchman mine ride, kind of scary and funny at the same time.
I, too, have a similar memory with Sixgun Territory and Old Tucson. Now I work at one.
Was talking with my two Aunts. They told me the story ( 1880's-'90's ? )about Their Grandfather who was a Mason in Kansas City, Missouri. Throughout the year they would raise funds for widows, orphans and also bought blankets / food for a nearby Indian tribe. One day he was taking a train far from town and suddenly it came to a stop, the tracks were blocked and a large number of armed Indians swarmed the train. They forced all the men and teenage boys off the train and marched them off ( to do what with them, i don't know...ransom ? ). As they were forced along, one young buck recognized my Great GrandFather and made the sign of the Mason's to him, then stopped the procession and let the other Indians know. They knew him as a good man so told him he was free, could go. He pointed out his Mason brothers and they also were freed. I wish i was able to know more details, but that's all they could tell me. Just another story lost to time... ☆
Great info!
People my age back then literally robbed trains, the closest I ever got to stealing was a snicker bar from my friend
Snickers are good.
Santee, it seems we share a very rare distinction. Being shot at by Gatling guns during a train robbery.
Is that so? Wow, a couple of us survived!
So I know I usually stop by with a one liner, or something to raise a chuckle. But this time something different to share the Safe aboard the train car blew up by Butch and the gang... @ the bridge over the north platte river of Wilcox. Well the safe has most likely more of my finger prints on it than Butch or Sundance. It was for years in the museum at Medicine bow Wyoming, I was drafted into helping get it on a pallet and load onto a truck bound to the university of Wyoming. Mountain man
You rapscallion!
Happy Easter Santee, I enjoy your videos a great deal...
You as well. Thanks.
It was August of that year! Good looking group too!
Thank You!
Your vids are great! Informative as well as entertaining. Please keep up the good work 🤠
Glad you like them!
Ha, ha, ha…don’t give up your day job. You’re a terrible train robber. Another great start for my weekend.😊
😁
I love the beginning "Train Robbery, let's look into it" 😂
hehe
Great "training session" on train robberies thar, Santee! Loved the topic. Yer a haven' too much fun at yer job except fer them mangey old cows who keep a interrupting yuah. Love your content. Keep up the great work!
Thank You! Yeah, they love to interrupt!
While taking BCT at Ft Leonard Wood they took us to Silver Dollar City on a Sunday for some R&R. the train there got robbed.
Fun stuff!
Back in ‘88 when I operated a train similar to the one you got there Santee we never got robbed thankfully. I suppose that because we were located at our local zoo the rapscallions were afraid we’d feed them to the lions if caught.
Maybe!! LOL!
There is a very good, old (true) story about a train robbery gone wrong, that took place up in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon - Northern California. Another example of using way too much dynamite 🤕
Yeah, and one with Elmer McCurdy where he melted the silver to the safe with too much explosive.
Look up the Newton brothers from Uvalde, Texas. Last of the western train robbers.
Yes.
😂 Cows on the line, that'll stop the train. 🐮🚂Happy Easter Santee🐰🐣🤠 😂
yes!
I absolutely love trains! Train robberies, not so much. Very cool video Santee, loved all the movie clips too! Tell Bill that hearing damage is cumulative and you don't get it back!
What? Huh? Say again?
I think the train robbing scene in the Assignation of Jesse James was one of the best scenes ever shot. As the light rolls by the gang in the woods it was near perfect.
Great cinematograpy
My favorite old west characters. Train robbers! Those guys had style.
They did!
If you all are going to do more train robbery videos, you should include "Black Jack" Tom Ketchum and how his robbing days were finally ended in 1901. Quite the story.
Oh yes.
Another great video, closest I've been to experiencing a train robbery is on the Tweetsie Railroad... sort of the old west in western North Carolina. The music choice during much of this was interesting. I watch a lot of stupid driver videos and one of the channels uses the same tune. I like that tune, it was strange hearing it here.
I watch a lot too and have never heard this music in them. Western movie music for car videos...interesting
@@ArizonaGhostriders I checked, the channel is Wham-Baam Teslacam, here is one of their videos. It's my favorite stupid driver channe. kzhead.info/sun/hL5wpt6hrKlqZWg/bejne.htmlsi=Clck_SzxDcUS-hCl
Great video Santee, I really enjoyed it.
Glad to hear it!
always enjoy your videos 🤠
I appreciate that!
As usual Santee, I like your videos. I wish our group in Payson AT had a train to rob or even stagecoaches. You seem to have a great place to play at times. -Kid Yuma
Thanks, Pard!
Another classic in the can! 👍
Classic!
Great as always 👌
Thanks again!
I tried to hold up a train once. I dont have the strength required to lift it.
Yeah, I've made that mistake.
Great video Santee
Glad you enjoyed it
another awesome job thank you
Thank you too!
I have always wondered how they pulled off train robberies. It isn't easy to climb on a train at most places and it seemed easy to guard the places where someone could pull it off.
It's tricky if it's moving.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I know as my family were railroad men
in school I learned that the first train robbery was in 1866 but I believe it was in 1862 starting the Great locomotive chase of 1862. literally stealing a train should count in my opinion.
Robbing trains early in the period was smart.
If my source is correct (he liked to embellish) the Pinkerton were actually deputized and even now are considered sworn officers (the railroad police)
Some yes.
Thanks for another educational video, Head Honcho. I'm wondering if there ever will be a video about writing utensils (pencils, fountain pens, typewriters etc.) in the old west. I mean, even train robbers had to keep track of their ill-gotten gains somehow, right?
I do have one. "How They Wrote"
@@ArizonaGhostriders Found it. Checking it out right now
Santee , this video was very informative and entertaining ! By the way was that Harrison Ford at 2:02 doing the hold up ?? Have a Great Day and be BLESSED 😊
Yes, in the movie Frisco Kid.
Thanks Santee 😊
Who in Sam's Hill keeps hiring Santee for these train robberies? Haha. Happy Easter🐰🐰🐰
Happy Easter
Thank You!
You too
Haha, Bill must have missed his que
Nope, he's always right on cue.
This was so informative, AS ALWAYS, Santee. Loved the visuals, and audios used to bring things to life. Suffice it to say, traveling wasn't easy, in those days. 🚂🛤🚃🐎🤗...👏🏻👏🏻
Well said!
Think ya used enough Dynamite there Butch? Love that movie.
Yep!
Great video, Santee! Train robberies are one of my absolute favourite parts of Old West History. I love doing my own ones in Red Dead Redemption 2. I was wondering if I could ask: what movie footage did you use in this video? I'd really like to look the lesser known of these movies up, seeing as they include train robberies. If it's no bother, do you think you could include which movie footage you use in the credits/description of your videos in the future? There are often movies that I like the look of in your videos, but I don't recognize the lesser known ones. :)
So cool and thanks for commenting.
Love the hat in the location partner looking good
Thank You! Right after that I reshaped the one I wore in the intro. Kind of John Wayne looking now.
Trains and the west, my 2 favorite things. Though, could you do a video on ear protection (if there was any)? Cause like the end of your video, guns are LOUD! Thanks!
They are.
THANKS
Welcome
👍 I love Shanghai Noon! Lol!
Me too!
Good stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it
The stunted robberies and shootouts were always a huge draw at the “old” Old Tucson, specially for us kids.
Good news is they are still there. We hae brought back the "old"
One of those trains is obviously from amusement park ride.
Yep. I work on a movie set that has one of those that travels around.
You are doing a Great Job
Thank You!
.......Somebody robbed the Glendale train, this morning at half past nine... Somebody robbed the Glendale train and I swear, I ain't lying...
🤠🤠
I'd have to imagine that it takes a lot of takes
At times it does.
For a good train robbery story, could you cover Jeff Milton?
I will.
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks Santee
Just watch the 1969 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' movie last night!
Awesome
Train robberies aren't necessarily a thing of the past. I remember reading some years ago of people that were robbing the passengers on the Amtrak trains that ran from LA to San Bernardino, because that corridor is so slow. Typical gang stuff; they weren't after the baggage car.
Right!
Also I’ll be having some different western themed logos as well .
Cool!
Deleted this comment the first time, but why not bring it back? This was perfect timing, because the players in my Deadlands campaign are going to be robbing a train within the next few sessions. Instead of stealing anything on the train though, they're going after the special locomotive.
Cool! 🥃
I've got to get out your way one day Santee
Yes
Durn tootin I’m still around. Lord willing and the creeks don’t rise. 😁
Awesome to hear!
Happy esster
You too
Got a question: When there were cattle drives, did the cowboys work 7 days a week?
I have a video on cattle drives. Enjoy it.
Thinking! Stopping trains ain’t as easy as in the movies. Instead it’s really hard. Still robberies most been common enough, to hire the Pinkertons.
If you did your homework and knew what to expect then it is clear how so many pulled it off fairly easily.
@@ArizonaGhostriders if you read my comment carefully. You’ll see that’s also my conclusion! Just meant the classic Western fiction stile. Train stopping just in front of a single tree trunk. Unless at almost at a standstill anyways. It wouldn’t work. Simple math, too much mass, movement and friction. Would be too late when you saw it at normal speed. There are several other ways to do it. These things stopped for watering and coal for example.
@@MyTv- Oh yeah. These guys were (mostly) pretty smart. I think later on it got way more difficult as the railroad folks got smarter. For me, I'd go stagecoach like my ghost Bill. Much less trouble...but not as much money.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Totally agree. Just the just a thought of being hunted by the Pinkertons, gives me the creeps.
As I try to picture the first time the idea of robbing a train was presented, there is always alcohol involved. I doubt it was just the author of the concept drinking. Obviously, someone tried it. Best of Days to all the Ghostriders.
I am inspired by bourbon. If they were, then hats off to them.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Indeed. Cheers!