run (a) stage

verb, to operate and/or drive a horse drawn vehicle that carried goods and passengers on a regular route over land or ice; see also drive stage

“He used to run stage across the ice.”

“They called it ‘run a stage’. And they’d be there on the ice, and anybody that wanted to go to town on the ice with the horse and sleigh, they’d pay so much to get on the sleigh, and he’d take them over, and then there’d be a bunch to come back.”

“When you mentioned before about running a stage, I don’t know if the girls know what a stage is.”