The Sidetracked Sleeper

  • Genre: Thriller
  • Run time: 12 min
  • Premiere: 1917. February 17.

Rupert Winslow, traffic superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram stating that his wife, who is ill, will be on the midnight express. He calls in Summers, a veteran brakeman on the passenger run and instructs him to watch over Mrs. Winslow and to sidetrack her sleeper if she requires medical attention.

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Walter Morton

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