Ottawa’s Role in the Biggest Train Heist in American History – Sunday Afternoon Ottawa History
Ottawa Historical & Scouting Heritage Museum 1100 Canal St., Ottawa, United StatesOn June 12, 1924 around 9:00 p.m. two bandits climbed over the engine tender of R.P.O. train 57, 30 miles outside Chicago. The two men covered the engineer and firemen at gun forcing them to stop the train near Rondout, Illinois. Four other bandits were a Rondout,