Showing posts with label Cotton Belt Railroad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cotton Belt Railroad. Show all posts

Friday, May 5, 2017

Death in the Texarkana Switchyard

About 10 o’clock on a Friday evening in April 1926, Louis Riley Burns climbed on top of a boxcar in Texarkana, Texas. As a switchman for the Cotton Belt Railroad, his job was to get on top of the cars and give signals to the engineers and conductors on the ground.