MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. – Two Philadelphia women who were hopping freight trains across the continent made it only 1,069 miles. The locomotive crew stopped a Chicago-originated train in Minnesota City and called for sheriff’s deputies to pull the women off a freight car. Ticketed for trespassing were Ellen Kathleen Foster, 40, and Jacqueline Mi Milestone, 30. It was unclear how the train crew, at the front end, became aware that the women were hitching a ride. The crew halted the train at Bridge Street. This was about 7:50 p.m. The women were issued tickets. Did they hop a later Canadian Pacific train to continue west? Who knows. The Amtrak passenger fare from Philadelphia to Winona is $405 in coach. A sleeper can run $1,500.
