The Deserted Engine(1917) /

The Deserted Engine剧情介绍

Helen succeeds in obtaining for Jack Forney a position as fireman. Bob Ashton the engineer, by faking an impending collision, succeeds in scaring Forney so that he jumps and deserts his engine. Helen is angered as the others give her friend the laugh, and promises that \"he'll show them some day.\" The superintendent suspends Jack for two weeks. Bob is promoted to the fast mail. The clerk is given a package containing acid, which he accidentally breaks and is asphyxiated by the fumes. Bob looks back and sees that the mail clerk has failed to make a catch of the mail bag from a crane. He sends the fireman back to investigate. The fireman is also overcome and Bob goes back. He, too, is overcome. Helen, about to go riding with Jack, is surprised to see the train speed past with the engine deserted. With Jack, she rides across country, reaches a trestle and leaps to the track. Mounting a water barrel, she leaps to the rear vestibule of the last car and clambers over the roofs to the engine as Jack rides ahead to the switch, which he throws just as Helen puts on the brakes, thus switching the mail train just in time to avert a collision with a special. The asphyxiated men are rescued and Helen informs Bob that he owes his life to Jack.