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Some of the washouts were a mile in length and with the tracks had gone the roadbed. Twenty trains bound west were stalled at various points, but all were in big towns, so the passengers did not suffer. The Pennsylvania Railroad suffered more damage than any other. The service west of Pittsburgh was badly crippled.

Lefty craned his neck from the door, studying the roadbed, but at that moment the locomotive topped the little rise and the whole train lurched forward. "After all," murmured Lefty Joe, "it sounds like Donnegan. Hated a guy so bad that he hadn't any use for livin' when he heard the other guy was dead. But I'm never goin' to cross his path again, I hope."

"No -Don't look just yet," he added, holding the lantern behind him. "But tell me; you've often seen Mr. Dodge. What kind of boots did he wear?" "Narrow, pointed shoes, and rather high heeled for a man to wear," Darrin answered. "Exactly," nodded Dick. "Look there!" Darrin bent down over a soft spot in the soil close to the railway roadbed.

But she may yet stop the train at the culvert bridge. A long shrill whistle sounds. It is the familiar signal of the Keystone Express. Regardless of the acute pain which every step causes her, the widow scrambles over the rocks. As she reaches the roadbed the express rumbles over the trestle. With a cry of despair she sinks to the ground.

"They talk of it as something terrible. Why?" Houston pointed to the forbidding wall of snow. His thick, broken lips mumbled in the longest speech he had known in days. "It's all granite up there. The cut of the roadbed forms a base for the remainder of the snow. It's practically all resting on the tracks; above, there's nothing for the snow to cling to.

"All right, then," smiled Hazelton. "You're a smarter engineer than I am, Tom, old fellow. If you're satisfied, then I'm bound to be, for I'll back your judgment in engineering against my own." "That's rather more praise, Harry, than I expect or wish," Reade rejoined soberly. "But I don't see how the Man-killer can ever again assert himself against the A. G. & N. M.'s roadbed."

This with the powerful electric headlights now used, with which the roadbed is lit up for a distance of five miles, makes a head-on collision almost impossible, while the air brakes, heavy rails, solid roadbed, doing away with the sharp curves and heavy grades, all add to the safety of the passengers and the saving of many miles in travel and many precious moments.

Place the other twenty under his orders. Your gangs will come into play here later than the others, so I'll let your shift of men have the first chance at night-watchman duty." "All right, sir," nodded Foreman Bell. "Any further orders?" "None, except that your watchmen will do their best to guard both the line of roadbed and the camp.

Lawrence, was Chambly, ten miles below. Flat-boats and long-boats could be dragged up stream, but vessels of any size had to be transported by land; and the engineers found the roadbed too soft in places to bear the weight of a hundred tons. Under Douglas's directions, the planking and frames of two schooners were taken down at Chambly, and carried round by road to St.

If she can reach it before the arrival of the express, the life of Harvey Trueman and those of all the passengers will be saved. The nature of her mission gives her strength to travel over the rough roadbed with incredible speed. Her eyes are upon the station, which momentarily becomes more and more indistinct; she knows that if the train starts up the grade she can see the headlight.

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