Alex cast a last look back toward the construction-train. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
The time had passed uneventfully with the three young telegraphers, the end of the second week finding Alex and Jack together with the construction-train at the rail-head, and Wilson Jennings back at the temporary station and material-sidings at the viaduct. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
He had hoped the light would reveal the swing to the east, and the dark shape of the construction-train. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
The construction-train should not be far from the stretch of road which paralleled the fence! ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
Since the construction-train had started from Yellow Creek Junction it had been a center of attraction to coyotes for fifty miles around, and one of the few recreations enjoyed by the men of the train had been hunting them at night. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
Casting a glance toward the construction-train, Alex leaped into the gully, out of sight. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
Jack, at the construction-train, rose late that morning. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
From a clear patch of sky bright moonlight flooded the construction-train and the gray slope of the hill to the southeast about which the rails had crept that day. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
Try and signal Alex or Jack, at the construction-train? ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
Within a short time, however, all three boys had somewhat recovered, and were able to take their places in the engine cab; and a half hour later the party headed back for the construction-train, coupled behind them a box-car containing eighteen prisoners. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
When rescued, rescuers and prisoners arrived at the construction-train they found an excited crowd of over three hundred men awaiting them. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
The official was grimly silent as they retraced their steps toward the construction-train. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
Alex decided on the latter course, and making his way along the bed of the stream, passed the hobbled ponies, and on to the new bridge fifty feet in rear of the construction-train. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
One afternoon "Happy Tom" burst in upon his chief, having hastened out from Omar on a construction-train. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
"Look here, Little Hawk," he suggested, "you ride back to the construction-train and give the alarm, will you? ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
And it'd take one of us an hour and a half to reach the construction-train. " ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
"We landed at Rangoon about May 1st, went by rail to Mandalay, and from there travelled slowly up-country by construction-train to the ❋ William Patten (1902)
