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Girl Ditches Freight to Save Train Passengers
In a small town tale, Eliza faces a moral crisis as a freight approaches a switch. Her father Jim lies injured on a telegraph desk after an electrical shock. She uses the switch lever to derail the deadly freight and spare lives, amid a storm and oncoming Oklahoma Special.
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