steel-laden

Updated: April 30, 2025

In response to the signals of McGraw, the engine started slowly shoreward. Before the train had moved many yards the slack of the steel rope was taken up. It tautened and drew up almost to a straight line, so tense that it sang like a violin string in the sharp wind gusts. Then the steel-laden cars creaked, started, and rolled shoreward after the train, groaning under their burden.

Robert Ames Bennet - Out of the Primitive