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The narrative follows competing railroad interests that clash over a mountain-canyon right of way, tracing a fast special train’s westward movement and the construction camps, grading crews, and armed track forces arrayed around the contested route. Episodes alternate vivid mountain travel and engineering detail with legal orders, block signals, landslides, and acts of deliberate interference with trackwork as managers, engineers, and agents maneuver for advantage. A personal and romantic thread complicates alliances and motives, combining technical challenges and rugged landscape description with interpersonal strategy and the practical dangers of frontier railroad building.
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