Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train will collide with the Eastbound Express. Helen jumps onto a nearby standing locomotive, opens it up full throttle, catches up the Express, warns the engineer of the impending danger

• Kalem Company
• Helen Holmes
• William Ehfe
• Jack Hoxie
• Charles Wells
• Ethel Clisbee