"Once upon a Train"

....up and down the passenger cars trying to sell Walther's catalogs with the covers ripped off,("stolen property")for $14.95 a copy. These low life vermin are noted for their.....
 
.... and the biggest sin of all! A Shay (with pantograph of course) pulling passengers and shipping container freight across the Prairie!!

Anyhooo.. Jesse, The Professor, Dam Sal, Daisy, Maisy, Lazy & Prudence (posthumously)
reboarded the train following their theatrical stunt for the film crew as the Director said "CUT". Being a Hollywood backlot set, the track only went as far as ......
 
... Southern Oakland. That's where it ran into trouble, because the tracks connected with the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) tracks. With a full head of steam, the train full of actors, cows and music boxes...

(BART is an electric light-rail system (or at least was in the early eighties when I lived there). Mainly elevated tracks)
 
...every one waited with baited breath to see if the train was headed for the tunnel under the bay..it was !! the engineer scrambled frantically to douse the fire, not wanting to suffer from smoke inhalation ,just then the music box started to belt out " San Franisco here I come " thinking it was a "Nickleodeon ".....
 
.... the Engineer dug into his pockets, and only had dimes and quarters! What was he going to do! With the Bay Tunnel fast approaching, a thought flashed into his mind. His magic moment of brainwave was to ....