I suspect the note means mixed freight, one family's farm implements, furniture, and household goods. --The people needed to buy tickets and traveled by coach.

    That's the way my grandfather and family moved from PA to MI years ago.  I tried to trace the route but it's amazing the number of different RR's back then.

Jon Miller
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