Vanishing Train Robbers

On the evening of April 27th, 1887 southern Arizona’s only passenger train, the Sunset Express, was making its run toward Tucson when a man stepped on to the tracks waving a red lantern, a warning of danger and the train stopped just short of a barrier. Shots rang out peppering the boiler with holes. Two masked men stepped out and ordered the crew down from the engine. Meanwhile the Wells Fargo messenger, sensing a holdup, removed several thousand dollars from the safe and stuffed it into t