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The Great Train Robbery
Cecil B. DeMille's The Great Train Robbery in 1906.
The Reno brothers, Frank, Simeon and William, committed the first US train robbery on October 6, 1866. In Indiana, they boarded an eastbound train toting guns and wearing masks. After emptying a safe the robbers jumped off the train to make an easy getaway.
"The Great Train Robbery" (1903) which is also credited as the narrative feature in history. The film runs eleven minutes and recounts the efforts of a group of bandits to rob a train.
the first train in the us was the Chattanooga
(in the US) There is no such thing as "common law" robbery. All robberies are STATUTORY offenses.
Ross never saw a movie. The first movie was the Great Train Robbery made in 1928. It was a silent movie. The invention of TV and movies are in modern history.
According to something I read, the last GTR was in Colver Pa. The train was robbed of its cash payroll for the coal mines. The guard was killed and the robbers were later caught, convicted and executed.
You are sitting in a moving train. It appears to you as if the trees outside are moving in the opposite direction. This is what we call relative motion. Sun seems moving from east to west daily. But it is only relative to us as we on the earth are moving from west to east.
Jotham Coleman Sr.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was successful in moving a train using wind power by means of sails. However, it was shown to be inefficient and impractical.
People have been travelling by train in the U.S. since sometime in the 1840's.