By freight train, he was referring, of course, to a mixed-train.
I'm a Samuel Clemens (Sp?) fan, FHe did visit the Holy Land and wroye the truth about conditions at the time.
By way of introduction, I'm a Mark Twain aficionado and my primary avocation is Twain's Geography. Railroads are an integral part of that geography and I am researching all the lines he may have traveled on. As this predates your defined interval of a "Golden Age", I'm wondering if this community is of much use to me. At the moment I'm attempting to determine his route from Rockford, Illinois to Davenport, IA (he mentions Rock Island). According to a letter he wrote his wife, they departed Rockford at 11 pm on a freight train; caught a sleeper car at 12:30 am; changed trains at 2:40 am and arrived in Rock Island at 6am.
This is a sample of the type of thing I'm looking for.
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