jeffmorris
Active member
I was watching "Little House on the Prairie" TV show where a boy "accidentally" uncoupled the caboose from a train that was stopped at a station. The boy and two girls got into the caboose that started to roll away from the train. Telephones were not yet invented in 1870s-1880s. The tower tried to contact other towers using telegraphs but one man was washing his clothing and I think that the line was dead in other tower. Two men raced to other towers. One man came to the tower. The switch stand was locked and it couldn't be unlocked before the caboose ran through the switch. The other man came to other tower and found out that a special train already left the station. The man stole a horse and raced to the train. He fought with the train crew until they saw the caboose. They stopped the train and ran it in reverse. The caboose almost crashed into the train.