Danger Signals

At the roundhouse, a stranger’s face is young, but his hair and whiskers are white as snow. When John learns the visitor is Jim Wainright, an old railroad companion he thought dead, their reunion turns to the memory of the Kid—the fireman Jim loved like a brother.

On the steam-railroad frontier, where a hard run can turn a routine shift into a fight for life, old crews remember one another like veterans recalling battles. In Boston, Jim begins telling John how he took on a young fireman at the request of his sister, a gifted mechanical draughtswoman, and brought him aboard a novel experimental locomotive. The boy is eager but untested; Jim is responsible not only for the engine’s trial runs, but for the young man beside him. Hill and Brady’s collection follows railroad men confronting danger with nerve, loyalty, and skill. What will the Kid face on the rails—and can Jim keep him safe?

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