The Fiend at the Throttle

Overview

Rita, a telegraph operator, informed that a freight train which is due to pass her station filled with high explosives is about to be overtaken by a passenger train on the same track with a madman at the controls, leaps onto a handcar, which she crashes into the passenger train and thus stops it; she jumps onto the cowcatcher, and into the cab of the engine, where, after a hard struggle with the fiend, she manages to overcome him and sidetrack the passenger train thus preventing disaster.

Cast

Elsie MacLeod

Rita - a Telegraph Operator

John Burden

Hopkins - the Engineer

DeVore Palmer

Logan - Operator at Hobart

Philip Robson

A Substitute Engineer