Sitting here idly staring at the screen, and thinking about the RR station I once hung around, I wonder, with all the
crime in today's world, of people holding up quickie market gas stations, etc., if that was a problem for station masters
in the hundreds (thousands?) of city and small town stations across the country? Some of them were in pretty lonely
places, and with some cash on hand for ticket and shipment sales. Some of those stations were open late into the night,
if not all night. I read in a history of the Great Western that one of the engine crewmembers who walked to work in the early dark down by the tracks carried a big revolver.
