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  • A two-reel railroad picture, full of dandy scenes and pictures of locomotives belching the blackest of black smoke. These stirring scenes and its good photography make it a very entertaining offering in spite of the weakness of the story. We doubt whether a rival railroad could hire a stable sweeper to act as fireman on the locomotive that was to race for a mail contract and have him dope the water-tank so that the engine would "prime," but it seems all right in a picture. That that same stable boy would, without special orders, overstep this when his plan had gone awry and pull a pistol at the rival engineer is hardly convincing enough for a picture. There is also a very weak, conventional scene in the train dispatcher's office that most will think unconvincing, These bits of slipshod work hurt the picture without anywhere near killing it. E.W. Matlack is author and J.P. McGowan put it on. - The Moving Picture World, August 8, 1914