Who punches tickets on a train?

A conductor's punch cancelled the passenger's ticket stub and also cancelled the main portion of the ticket retained by the conductor. Each conductor had his own punch, which made a specifically shaped hole. The hole shape differed from punch to punch.



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Bandits, cheats, desperados, hobos, ravagers, renegades — you name the hooligan, and the Wild West has it in spades. There are plenty of opportunities for these ne'er-do-wells to pillage and plunder in the mostly uncharted western lands, but robbing trains has become the trendiest.

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He was a hobo, part of an American tradition that emerged after the Civil War: transient laborers who rode the rails and found short-term work along the way.

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