Some still do. But there was a true Christmas train -- a passenger train that began service in South Carolina on December twenty-fifth,eighteen thirty.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

In nineteen twenty-five, he was returning on a train from baseball spring training in the South.

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A ticket to ride the train from Chicago to Seattle,Washington was fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

In the early nineteen hundreds, a story about attacks on white settlers moving into Indian territory explained, "The Sioux had the wagon-train surrounded and the soldiers buffaloed."

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