Deadhead Freight

The National Broadcasting Company presents Joe McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribed from Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joe McCray as Ranger Jason Pearson.

Texas more than 260,000 square miles. And 50 men will make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts, only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.

The events themselves are a matter of record. Case for tonight? Deadhead Freight. It is shortly before midnight August 27th 1938 at the Santa Fe Freight Yards in Lubbock, Texas. A deadhead Freight hauling empties back to the west coast from Galveston has just pulled into the yard.

The brakeman and the railroad detective are making a routine check of the cars for free riding hobo's. If I was a yardick, I'd be snoozing in the roundhouse. You ain't found a free rider in months.

Yes, sir, what? I get paid to check and I'd check. All you know, Bo's on the freight's always hop off before we pull into the yards. Everything would have a might fall asleep in the car and not have anybody to wake him up.

Well, it could be. Yeah, fleshy lightness. Okay. Hey, see? Nobody. Now the car up ahead is the last of the boxcars. I walked the flats and gondolas while he was rolling, so I know that they're clear.

Hey, why is this door rolling shut on this? I don't know now, it shouldn't be. Let's get her open. And so you let her out. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody riding, huh? Come on. Alright, Bo. On your feet.