"Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails" - ISBN-13: 978-1626198937

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - March 24, 2015 - PRLog -- “He never meant to rob a moving train, nor get gunned down near the President. It really happened.”

In 1949, two bandits from Youngstown, OH boarded a B & O passenger train from Washington, DC to Detroit.  In the West Virginia mountains near Martinsburg, Luman “Lu” Ramsdell and his gang stopped the train to rob and terrorize nearly 150 people on board.  They pistol-whipped several and shot at others before exiting the train to next rob a tavern and hijack getaway cars.  National headlines likened the event to the exploits of Jess James and the halcyon days of the Wild West.  Lu and the gang led authorities on a chase that ended with a harrowing shootout five blocks from the White House.  Climb aboard with author Wilson Casey for a firsthand account from the head bandit himself in the true tale of America’s last moving train robbery.

Plus the events and criminal escapades of the head bandit before and after the train robbery- his youth of supermarket robberies and stealing cars, serving in World War II, “escape” from Alcatraz, etc.  Book loaded with comic strip illustrations for story flow.  The action and escapades are non-stop!

Other history books are wrong in their claims of Jesse James or Butch Cassidy as "America's last moving train robber."  Instead, it was Lu Ramsdell, the central character of "Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails".

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