25 December 1915 Thriller 12 mins
Climbing into a cab of a freight engine, Bobbie Layson, the son of a station pulls the throttle open. The alarm goes out and Helen, stationed at Lone Point, is ordered to derail the runaway and thus prevent it from running head-on into the approaching passenger train. Fearing for his son's life, Layson phones Helen
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Helen Gibson as Helen
Franklyn Hall as Odell - Engineer
Clarence Burton as Layson - Station Agent
Clement Graw as Pinture - Fireman
Tom Trent as Bobbie Layson - the Boy at the Throttle
United States 25 December 1915
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