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Title: The Young Railroaders
Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

Author: Francis Lovell Coombs

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THE YOUNG RAILROADERS

Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

by

F. LOVELL COOMBS

With Illustrations by F. B. Masters

[Illustration: THE NEXT MOMENT THE MIDWAY JUNCTION GHOST STEPPED
GRIMLY FROM HIS BOX.]

New York
The Century Co.
1910

Copyright, 1909, 1910, by
The Century Co.

Published September, 1910

Electrotyped and Printed by
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston

To
B. R. C. AND K. L. C.
A REMEMBRANCE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. One Kind Of Wireless 3
II. An Original Emergency Battery 24
III. A Tinker Who Made Good 38
IV. The Other Tinker Also Makes Good 54
V. An Electrical Detective 68
VI. Jack Has His Adventure 86
VII. A Race Through The Flames 102
VIII. The Secret Telegram 117
IX. Jack Plays Reporter, With Unexpected Results 132
X. A Runaway Train 146
XI. The Haunted Station 163
XII. In A Bad Fix, And Out 180
XIII. Professor Click, Mind Reader 198
XIV. The Last Of The Freight Thieves 225