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A Runaway Train

Story Stats

Rating: 4

Grade Level: 5, 6, 7

Page count: 5

Categories: Adventure

Author

F. Lovell

Coombs

Appeared in

The St. Nicholas Anthology

Story Summary

Two telegraphs operators know the only way to stop a runaway train is to get ahead of it on a handcar and when it slows near the top of a rise, jump aboard.

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