Charley West, a lineman, complains about his rickety old hand-car, and is given one that is up-to-date. He tries it out and finds he can send it sixty miles an hour. The train dispatcher, forgetting an oncoming special freight, allows a passenger train to leave the yard before he discovers his mistake.
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William Duncan as Charley West - the Lineman
Lester Cuneo as Train Dispatcher
Rex De Rosselli as The Superindendent
Tom Mix as The Engineer
United States 14 June 1913
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1913:
27 February 1913
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment.
13 December 1913
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
27 June 1913
A railroad plant is set afire by striking workmen, and the firemen are prevented from extinguishing the flames by the infuriated strikers.
10 October 1913
Mr. Burns, a student of Theosophy, has a dream in the hammock. He sees himself, his wife and her admirer, in a previous existence.
26 November 1913
Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant.
15 September 1913
Angelo Diotti, a violinist, although encouraged by the eulogy of the musical profession, fails to impress Mildred Wallace, with whom he is in love, by his efforts on the violin.
01 June 1913
The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”.
01 April 1913
A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life.
13 December 1913
Mary and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. Stanley, the girl's father, suspects the boy of being a victim of the drug habit.
24 October 1913
An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.
21 November 1913
Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border.
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