Snowplow Extra Chapter 24
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Contents |
Location
Characters
- Steve Cziller
- Bud Ellsberg
- John Penny
- Tom Bigelow
- Frank Matson
- Bill Lee
- Bruce Marshall
- Jim Bartenslager
- Jim Horton
Also Mentioned
- Walt Archer
- Betty
- C.J. Greene
- Harry Anson
- Diane Lee
- Fred Linder
- Chip Halsey
- Roger Tefke
- Ralph McPhee
- Harold Stevens
- Rod Turpin
- Joe McGuinness
- Bruce Page
Time Period
0615 Jan10 - 0757 Jan 10 1981 1430 Aug 17 1982
Summary
All trains make it to Warsaw where things are switched around. The Rock and the 9608 would stay in Warsaw as a scram train while the SX-3217 would return to Spearfish Lake on an ambulance run. Much switching was needed including Bill Lee's snowmobile. Bud convinces him to take the train to Spearfish Lake before riding to the Coldwater Hospital and his daughter.
Frank Matson and Bud talk about business, especially what Frank learned from Greene about how D&O wanted to hike rates at the Big Pit. He also learned from Marshal that Jerusalem might rebuild a new paper plant. Things were still only tentative, but it was a bit of good news.
Just after the train pulled out of Warsaw, the sun came out and the storm was over.
The epilogue takes place in the summer a year and a half afterwards at the dedication of the new Jerusalem Paper plant. Bud's thoughts provide the narrative of the changes while various speakers hand out praises.
The arrival of the Camden and Coldwater fire departments provided the muscle needed to finally stop the fire. A train run to Camden was needed to fetch firefighting foam and repair parts for trains. The drawbridge in Camden hasn't been repaired, so the Kremmling branch is important with the little GE running over the dubious track. Diane's Alco is retrieved and returned to service just as she comes home from the hospital.
While the relationship between the C&SL Railroad and the D&O Railroad deteriorates because of the Big Pit gravel business, that between Bud and Bill Lee becomes closer. Bud hires many of the unemployed men in Warsaw to repair the Kremmling Branch. He also buys more engines.
Diane and Bruce Page are married and returned from the honeymoon to run the Baldwin to the ceremony in Warsaw.
Bud gets his turn to speak. He is brief. "There's been a lot of talk today about the heroism of the railroad people... I don't like to think of it as heroism. We were just doing our jobs"
This is the last chapter.
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