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Updated: May 28, 2025
Trains were running now for work purposes, nearly as far as the line extended. The telegraph wires ran into the temporary station building at Lineville, and the several operators along the line were busy carrying orders through the length of the wire service. Back at Stormburg, where the railroad line began, three trains lay on side tracks.
The first train left Stormburg this morning. By seven tonight you'll have the last rails in place. Between eight and nine this evening the first through train will have rolled into Lineville and we shall have won the fight that has brought me many gray hairs. At last the worry is over!" "Of course, sir," nodded Tom.
It was not the same train that had left Stormburg, for that train had been halted, safely, just before reaching the scene of the disastrous blow-out. At that point the passengers had alighted and had been conducted on foot to the other side of the gap caused by the explosion. Here Hazelton's Lineville special stood ready to convey them into Lineville.
Once more Tom Reade had brought his work within sight of Lineville. In fact, the track extended all but the last mile of the line. Ties were down nearly all of the way to the terminal station. This was the state of affairs at two o'clock in the afternoon. Before midnight the last rail must be laid, and the first through train from Stormburg must run in.
So the road had been legally opened, since the passengers from Stormburg -among whom was the lieutenant governor of the state had been brought all the way through over the line. Within the meaning of the law a through train had been operated over the new line, and within charter time. The S.B. & L. had won! It had saved its charter.
These were passenger trains that were to run the entire length of the road as soon as it was opened. Back at Stormburg, also, the new general superintendent slept at his office that he might receive messages from President Newnham the more quickly. At Bakerstown a division superintendent was stationed, he, too, sleeping at his office.
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