CHAPTER VI 



THE RIGHT OF WAY 



NUMBER one hundred and ninety, the 

 latest model and the most powerful loco- 

 motive that the Baldwin works had ever 

 put out, fresh in her new coat of paint, 

 and burnished brass and steel, the pride 

 of the Union Pacific Railroad and the 

 envy of the mechanical world, came thun- 

 dering and clanking down track num- 

 ber twenty-three and butted into the four- 

 teen elegant cars of the Overland Flyer with 

 such force that a shudder ran through the 

 long train to its very end. 



Nervous women started and said oh, and 

 men wondered why the engineer didn't use 

 more care in backing down to a train like 

 this. The president of the road in his 



