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Updated: May 8, 2025
"Is that part of your work to get the trains on the track when they run off?" He laughed. "I suppose it is or at least, in a certain sense, I'm responsible for it. But I am lucky enough to have a wrecking-boss two of them, in fact, and both good ones."
"We'll hear the excuse later," said Lidgerwood. "Now, tell me what sort of a wrecking-plant we have?" "The best in the bunch," asserted the trainmaster. "Gridley's is the one department that has been kept up to date and in good fighting trim. We have one wrecking-crane that will pick up any of the big freight-pullers, and a lighter one that isn't half bad." "Who is your wrecking-boss?"
"That was McCloskey, our trainmaster," he cut in. "And the other ?" "Was wrecking-boss Number Two," he told her, "my latest apprentice, and a very promising young subject. This was his first time out under my administration, and he put McCloskey and me out of the running at once." "What did he do?" she asked, and again he saw the groping wistfulness in her eyes, and wondered at it.
This happened when the joke was at flood-tide, and the men of the wrecking-crew took a ten-gallon keg of whiskey along wherewith to celebrate the first appearance of the new superintendent in character as a practical wrecking-boss. The outcome was rather astonishing.
There was never a false move made or a tentative one, and when the huge lifting-crane went into action, Lidgerwood grew warmly enthusiastic. "Gridley certainly knows his business," he said to McCloskey. "The Red Butte Western doesn't need any better wrecking-boss than it has right now." "He can do the job, when he feels like it," admitted the trainmaster sourly.
Lidgerwood was recalling the last of these disappearances when the second wrecking-train, having backed to the nearest siding to admit of a reversal of its make-up order and the placing of the crane in the lead, came up to go into action. McCloskey shaded his eyes from the sun's glare and looked down the line. "Hello!" he exclaimed. "Got a new wrecking-boss?" The superintendent nodded.
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