Train Wreck, The
Broadcast: 30th April 1943
Added: Apr 30 2004
A train form the east wound slowly though the hills of the gold country. There were a few tunnels or bridges but the track for the most part wove perilously around the sides of mountains steeply down in to valleys and sharply up again. The telegraph ended at Alder Gulch miles behind the chugging train. Ahead the rail span countless miles where there was little indication of mans conquests and further ahead small settlements rested near the tracks. Late afternoon found the train approaching a small wooden trestle it spanned a narrow but deep and rapidly moving stream. Disaster lay in wait…