The Cornfield Meat

The engineer of Western Pacific's crack exposition flyer looked down a stretch of track near Pleasanton, California and saw the most horrifying site that can meet a train men's eyes. There was many, not many yards away loomed the giant shape of a deadhead in unattached freight locomotive, hurling him down the single strip of track. Both engineers threw on their brakes, passengers on the exposition flyer, an hour out of Oakland were jarred from their seats. In instant later, both locomotives met head on a hurricane of escaping steam roared into the cab of the flyer, suffocated and scalded to death,. The imprisoned engineer and fired in both engines left the rails and