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:
23 October 1913
The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one.
26 September 1913
In this one, Max is engaged to a girl -- called, as in all his shorts, 'Jane' -- and she loves her pussycat.
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.
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.
29 December 1913
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
21 January 1913
A kind hearted actress who befriended a poor little waif of the street, soon grew to love the child. When she went on the road she found him a home with her old nurse.
13 January 1913
Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the very mutineers themselves.
22 June 1913
Pearl's father disapproves of her sweetheart, Chester, and tries to use a mind-over-matter technique to keep him away.
02 May 1913
Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by special messenger.
07 May 1913
A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people.
24 March 1913
Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen.
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