Jesse James A Most Civilised Stick-Up
A very theatrical hold-up on the Rock Island line in 1873 that made gentlemen gasp and bank clerks sulk.Read More 
Stone Corral and the Night Mail That Got Mugged
TBH this is the delightfully chaotic true story of Chris Evans, John Sontag, a Southern Pacific night mail, and a shootout that felt like a wild west fever dream.Read More 
Sam Bass's Big Springs Payday
A Texan gambler paused a Union Pacific express at Big Springs and bolted off with a fortune in newly minted gold while the railway proprietors scrambled like embarrassed butlers.Read More 
how the renos pulled off a moving-bank heist and then got mobbed
They stopped the express, lifted the safe, and the whole Midwest lost its mind - this is the Reno brothers' very messy early train robbery.Read More 
Franz Muller and the Night-Carriage Murder
A lone stranger, a strangled banker, and a press corps that could not behave itself.Read More 
How Clever Clerks Nicked A King's Brass
A grubby little conspiracy among railway men that emptied a bullion box and left the company looking very sheepish indeed.Read More 