Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Empire Builders
Gallagher pulled the reversing lever into the back gear and sent the failing steam whistling into the chilled cylinders with cautious little jerks at the throttle. The box-plow came out of the clutch of its snow vise with shrillings as of a soul in torment, and the bucking out fit screeched coldly down over the snowy rails to the let-up, where the shovelers' box-car had been nu coupled.
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