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Troop Train

Tales of the Texas Rangers · April 6, 1952 · 29 min · 4,593 words

The transcript of “Troop Train”, an episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers first broadcast April 6, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Tales of the Texas Rangers plays Tales of the Texas Rangers free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jason Pearson. Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the piles of the Texas Rangers. Some places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of records.

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now here's today's adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers. Now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the case called troop train. It is 4.30 am on the morning of January 6, 1943. About 12 miles east of Humboldt, Texas, an army troop train roars westward through the darkness.

In the smoking room of one sleeping car, a burly private of 30-place solitaire, his lone companion, a 19-year-old PFC, stares out of the window. What do you see out there in the dark anyway? Texas?

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