by charlesriverbranch
A Great Northern Railway passenger train timetable dated January 15, 1951 includes this language:
Certain Freight Trains are Permitted to Carry Passengers Under the Following Conditions: Adult male passengers must hold regular passage tickets. This Company is not a common carrier of passengers by its freight trains and does not stop such trains at stations or station platforms except when the freight business of the road makes it necessary to do so. Person using such trains for passage assume all risk of injury or loss of time while riding on or getting to and from said trains. Women and children will not be carried on freight trains. Persons desirous of having their baggage accompany them on freight trains should deliver it at station and have it way-billed. Stock drovers, when in charge of stock and provided with proper transportation will be carried on train with such stock.
How common was that? Was it a policy peculiar to Great Northern? Where would passengers ride in a freight train?
Certain Freight Trains are Permitted to Carry Passengers Under the Following Conditions: Adult male passengers must hold regular passage tickets. This Company is not a common carrier of passengers by its freight trains and does not stop such trains at stations or station platforms except when the freight business of the road makes it necessary to do so. Person using such trains for passage assume all risk of injury or loss of time while riding on or getting to and from said trains. Women and children will not be carried on freight trains. Persons desirous of having their baggage accompany them on freight trains should deliver it at station and have it way-billed. Stock drovers, when in charge of stock and provided with proper transportation will be carried on train with such stock.
How common was that? Was it a policy peculiar to Great Northern? Where would passengers ride in a freight train?