Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer

Project Gutenberg's Ralph on the Overland Express, by Allen Chapman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Author: Allen Chapman Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #28655] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RALPH ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net “AN AVALANCHE!” DECLARED FOGG. “DODGE—SOMETHING’S COMING!” Page 254. Ralph on the Overland Express. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. No. 999 1 II. A Special Passenger 12 III. One of the Rules 22 IV. A Warning 35 V. At Bay 43 VI. Four Medals 51 VII. Dave Bissell, Train Boy 60 VIII. An Astonishing Discovery 68 IX. The Light of Home 76 X. Fire! 88 XI. The Master Mechanic 95 XII. A Good Friend 104 XIII. The “Black Hand” 114 XIV. A Serious Plot 123 XV. “The Silvandos” 129 XVI. Zeph Dallas and His “Mystery” 138 XVII. In Widener’s Gap 145 XVIII. At the Semaphore 153 XIX. The Boy Who Was Hazed 160 XX. “Lord Lionel Montague” 171 XXI. Archie Graham’s Invention 179 XXII. Ike Slump Again 188 XXIII. A Critical Moment 195 XXIV. The New Run 203 XXV. The Mountain Division 209 XXVI.