The Engineer's Revenge (1914)
Engineer's daughter Mabel Green is in love with the superintendent's son Harry. Worried over finances and the fear of losing his home, the engineer takes several drinks on his way to work, leaving the saloon a bit unsteadily. He argues with his foreman, who fears to take the engine out. The superintendent overhears their dispute and discharges the engineer. A fight ensues, in which a policeman is badly injured. The engineer is tried and is sent up for a long term. Harry, meanwhile, has done his utmost to influence his father on the engineer's behalf, but the superintendent orders him to mind his own business. When Harry begs his father to save Mabel's home, the superintendent, sick of the whole affair, threatens to cast his son off if he sees Mabel again. Harry promptly marries her. His mother would take Mabel to her heart, but the superintendent sternly forbids it. Harry gets a position as towerman, Harry and Mabel welcome a baby daughter, and they are very happy. The superintendent suffers remorse, but refuses to relent. His wife secretly visits the little family and one day is followed by her husband. There a reconciliation is effected and the superintendent hurries off to the tower to tell his son. Meanwhile, the engineer has been released, and swears vengeance. He reads of a special trip the superintendent is to make over the road and finds he just has time to carry out a scheme of destruction. The superintendent takes Harry's wife and daughter with him on the trip. A siding on a hill switches down by Harry's tower onto the main track, and the engineer plans to send the empty freights on the special's track to meet and wreck it. He binds and gags Harry in the tower and throws the switch. When the engineer realizes who the tower man is he takes fiendish delight in explaining what is to happen. Harry tries to tell him of his secret marriage and that his daughter and granddaughter are on the train, but he cannot get the gag off. The engineer leaves, releases the cars and rides down on them. At the main track he jumps off. Harry has managed to get the gag loose and to silence his shouting the engineer rushes up in the tower. Harry compels him to listen and the man realizes what he has done. They rush from the tower and stop an automobile. A race begins between the motorcar and the freight cars. They get to the siding in the nick of time and throw the switch. The last freight car just passes the front of the engine and the special comes to a stop. The men and Mabel crowd from the car and Harry is made a hero. The engineer holds back, brokenhearted, until Harry draws him forward and the reconciliation is made complete.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Clarence Elmer | |
| Justina Huff | |
| John Smiley | |
| Joseph W. Smiley |
