A Boy at the Throttle

Climbing into a cab of a freight engine, Bobbie Layson, the son of a station pulls the throttle open. The alarm goes out and Helen, stationed at Lone Point, is ordered to derail the runaway and thus prevent it from running head-on into the approaching passenger train. Fearing for his son's life, Layson phones Helen

• Release date
• December 25, 1915
• Runtime
• 12 min
• Genres
• Thriller
• Director
• J. Gunnis Davis

Cast

Helen Gibson Helen Franklyn Hall Odell - Engineer Clarence Burton Layson - Station Agent

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Clement Graw Pinture - Fireman

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Tom Trent Bobbie Layson - the Boy at the Throttle