First Passenger Train to Albuquerque
1 1880, transportation, trains, hangings, shoot-out, fireworks, outlaws, parties Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The first passenger train to Albuquerque in 1880 was historic in more ways than one.
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