It is quoted from the Bobover Rebbe Reb Shloimele ZT”L that Lag Baomer was a major pilgrimage to Krakow, where the throngs would visit the grave of the Rem”a. He described that the average year on Lag Baomer there were as many as 120 weddings in Krakow, with wedding beginning the night of Lag Baomer, more in the morning after Shacharis, more at mid-day, and again before nightfall. He described how the trains knew there was major travel in the Jewish community, and typically made a “buy one, get one free” sale on train tickets. He described a common practice of entrepreneurial Yidden who would take a horse and wagon ride from Krakow to the nearest other train station, buy a ticket to Krakow which was short distance and inexpensive, and take the free ticket to distant cities for business such as Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, etc. These tickets were then often scalped.
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