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MILES CITY, Mont., May 2 (1971) -- Casey Barthelmess, 80 years old, once a bronc buster and a cowpoke, shifted on his crutches outside the depot. He tried to sound uninterested in what had happened.
“I thought there might be a little excitement,” he said, “but it was pretty quiet.” His voice had betrayed him by going hoarse in mid‐sentence.
He had just watched the coming and the going of the last passenger train through Miles City. As he spoke, the train could still be heard in the distance as it sped toward the end of the line at St. Paul.
“Miles City, Mont., Mourns End of Passenger Trains”
NEW YORK TIMES
May 3, 1971
https://www.nytimes.com/1...depot.html
“I thought there might be a little excitement,” he said, “but it was pretty quiet.” His voice had betrayed him by going hoarse in mid‐sentence.
He had just watched the coming and the going of the last passenger train through Miles City. As he spoke, the train could still be heard in the distance as it sped toward the end of the line at St. Paul.
“Miles City, Mont., Mourns End of Passenger Trains”
NEW YORK TIMES
May 3, 1971
https://www.nytimes.com/1...depot.html