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Updated: July 19, 2025
The hot winds swept the plains like blasts from a furnace. There was not a shelter as far as the eye could see except those little hot-boxes in which we lived. As the sun, like a great ball of fire, lowered to the horizon, a caravan topped the ridge from the north and moved slowly south across the strip. A wagon and a wobble-wheeled buggy, its dry spokes rattling like castanets, went by.
"Hot-box!" said the Jersey Suburban. "It's the price you pay for going on the tear. It's years since I've had one. It's a disease that don't attack shorthaulers, as a rule." "We never have hot-boxes on the Pennsylvania," said the Consolidation. "They get 'em in New York same as nervous prostration." "Ah, go home on a ferry-boat," said the Mogul.
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