The Nerve of Foley, and Other Railroad Stories

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Spearman Frank Hamilton. The Nerve of Foley, and Other Railroad Stories

The Nerve of Foley

Second Seventy-Seven

The Kid Engineer

The Sky-Scraper

Soda-Water Sal

The McWilliams Special

The Million-Dollar Freight-Train

Bucks

Sankey's Double Header

Siclone Clark

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It is a bad grade yet. But before the new work was done on the river division, Beverly Hill was a terror to trainmen.

On rainy Sundays old switchmen in the Zanesville yards still tell in their shanties of the night the Blackwood bridge went out and Cameron's stock-train got away on the hill, with the Denver flyer caught at the foot like a rat in a trap.

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The conductor of the flyer ran up to Ben in a panic.

"Buckley, they'll telescope us."

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