There is so much discrepancy in the dollar figures in these robberies. Authors disagree by tens of thousands of dollars on the amounts taken. I tend to go with the lower amounts, given the human tendency to exaggerate.
The four Reno brothers of Indiana, John, Frank, Simeon, William, along with a large gang pulled the first peacetime train robbery in America on October 6th, 1866 at

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