Speaker 1: Presenting Superman up in the sky. Look, it's a bird.
Speaker 2: It's plain it's Superman.
Speaker 3: Now Superman, amazing figure from another world with powers and
abilities never before realized by mortal men. Given a chance
to make good by Perry White, City editor of the
Daily Planet, young Clark Kent, who was really Superman, leaped
out a window twenty stories above the ground and vanished
in a squirrel of fog. Secret warnings had come to
the newspaper of a vague and sinister plot against the
railroads of the West. Mild mannered Clark Kent had received
orders to go west at once and investigate already dangerous
forming in the path of the Silver Clipper, cracked train
of the West Coast Railroad roaring over the prairie on
her way to Denver and Salt Lake. All planes were
grounded by fog and sleep. But to day, as our
story continues, a strange figure hurtled through space, red cape,
streaming in the whistling wind.
Speaker 1: Superman's speed.
Speaker 2: He's to his assignment.
Speaker 1: Twenty four hours to go.
Speaker 4: A silver Clipper leaves Denver tomorrow night on a way
to Salt Lake City. That man, who calls himself the Wolf,
have to find out who he is too, said, the
train would never get there. If we'll see Wolf, we'll
see if you're up to something, lookouse, because the other
side has Superman.
Speaker 3: And the Superman wings his way westward, following the faint
steel ribbon of the railway line below him. Two men
sit waiting in a tiny shack in the Colorado foothills.
One of them is Keen o'carter, Gunman, Gambler, bad Man
of the Southwest. Quino waits nervously wait for some word
from the figure across the table, the dark, shadowy figure
who calls himself the Wolf.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, course, will you please tell me what we're
doing out here now? The Silver Clipper ain't toodle Lamar,
don't even leave Denvite tomorrow afternoon. Very true, Keno, But
the Western Limited is due in exactly ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Well, what are you going to do with the Limited?
Speaker 2: I warn various people and newspapers that something would happen
to the Silver Clipper tomorrow night, as it will. So far,
they've chosen to ignore me. Really well, when they see
what overtakes the Limited in spectly less than ten minutes,
they will pay more attention to me.
Speaker 1: When I call again.
Speaker 2: Now, listen, boss, what is this the game? What are
you trying to do? Why?
Speaker 1: Ask me?
Speaker 2: Qo? Do I know any more than you? We're told
to paralyze the railroads. That's all. It's enough. We obey orders.
Well whose orders? Where did they come from? Yours come
from me? And you know what happens, Keno, if you
disregard them. Shall I tell you again?
Speaker 1: No? No?
Speaker 2: Never mind, very well, come outside. Not long to wait?
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: If the limited is on time, we should begin to
hear her.
Speaker 1: I don't hear nothing.
Speaker 2: Ah, she is on time. And what I told you? Yeah,
I done it, But I don't see you will see, Keno,
very shortly. Indeed, Hey, what are you trying to do?
Scare them to dead? Listen what I tell you?
Speaker 1: I'm listening.
Speaker 2: That train will be going over that trestle down there
in another seven or eight minutes. So what At the
end of the trestle. As you can see, Keno, the
track turns and runs along the cliff on the mountain side.
I see the mountains to one side, very steep and abrupt,
then the track, then the canyon three hundred feet deep. Hey, listen,
you gonna throw them down the canyon the whole ten cars.
As I said before, all you have to do is
obey orders.
Speaker 1: All right, what do I do?
Speaker 2: You wait till the train has crossed the trestle, then
you fire the charge right away. Count ten if you like?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: And then what Then events will take their natural course,
after which you will come back and.
Speaker 1: Join me in the cabin. Hey, she's coming, Come and
O be my friend. Let across the trestle.
Speaker 2: Then count him?
Speaker 1: Ah good?
Speaker 4: Still following the railway, I want to be getting fairly
close to Denver. Looks like a long trestle up ahead.
I'd got aboard that train if it weren't so slow,
and I'll drop down a bit and look it over.
Speaker 1: Might do it anyway? Ride in his Clark can't.
Speaker 4: What's that man on the side of the mountain doing.
Looks like he's got a charging battery for dynamite blasting.
Something queer about that seems to be waiting. He's waiting
for the train gonna blasted run off the tracks. This
looks like some of your dirty work.
Speaker 1: Wolf.
Speaker 4: Well, here's where Superman takes a hand. I've got to
say stop that train. I'll get aboard and they'll stop
to put me off because I have no ticket. It's
got to be fast. Ninety miles an hour good speed
for a train, but it can't leave Superman behind. There's
the observation platform.
Speaker 1: What what? Nobody honest? Now?
Speaker 4: Then grab the platform rails there, leap on board. Now
now to join the passengers as Clark can come, reporter
for the Daily Planet. Off for the cape, into ordinary
clothes and inside.
Speaker 5: Please all tickets, tickets, plice to pay a ball, all tickets,
please take us, please they have your picket.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sorry, conductor, but I have lost No, you've
lost it, and I'm afraid that the laptop is going
to pay the pair.
Speaker 1: Now you know.
Speaker 6: I'm terribly sorry, but I seem to have lost my money.
Speaker 2: I thought so you've been riding the blinds and thinking
you sneak in here where it's warm.
Speaker 6: Well, we know how to deal with bums like you.
Speaker 1: That's right, conductor, start the train and put me off.
I don't mind, huh say, who are you?
Speaker 6: Clark Kent, reporter for the Daily Planet.
Speaker 1: But that's all right.
Speaker 6: I ought to be more.
Speaker 1: Careful, teach me a good lesson.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess I'll take a chance if you're really
a reporter, you're liable.
Speaker 6: To write up a story about getting kicked off our train.
Speaker 4: You will stay where you are, but look here, I'll
take care of you when we get to town.
Speaker 1: And if you're not a reporter, no good. I overplay it.
Speaker 6: It's kind of gonna do something a quick tool.
Speaker 1: We're on the trestle. Where's that emergency cort?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on here?
Speaker 2: Pooh, pull my cord?
Speaker 1: I did conductor.
Speaker 6: I'm terribly sorry, or right well.
Speaker 1: You better be sorry.
Speaker 3: Come back here, come back.
Speaker 1: I can't stay, conductor.
Speaker 6: My conscience bothers me. I'll just jump off right where
we are on the trest You come back here. I'll
be all right.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about me. I got her. I can get
away the time I used to.
Speaker 6: Right here, I want to get you.
Speaker 1: Ain't getting off. You won't go to jail for this.
You can back up themselves.
Speaker 6: Look up the mountain, conductor, that flash, what the what
the way?
Speaker 1: Were thrown on up?
Speaker 4: There was a blast, an explosion up the mountain, Great
Scott conductor.
Speaker 6: Look look what's coming?
Speaker 1: Lord Sabers's a rock slide.
Speaker 4: Towns a rock coming down on the track.
Speaker 1: Listen to it right ahead of.
Speaker 6: Us too, took the facts off like two pieces straight.
Oh lord, and now they're roll coming out to find
out what happened.
Speaker 5: It's all right, it's all right, lads, gentlemen. No dangers
the rock slide up ahead. I thought that maybe a
slight delay lay.
Speaker 6: You don't think you can dig through that, do you.
Speaker 1: I'll get back in the train.
Speaker 6: Plays, get back.
Speaker 1: It's dangerous out here.
Speaker 6: Back on board.
Speaker 5: Plays. We may be held up a little while. Back
on board, everybody plays. We'll be pulling out correctly.
Speaker 6: Now then, conductor, I think you owe me a voted thanks.
Oh you know, do you?
Speaker 1: Well? What makes you think that? Well? Use your eyes?
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: Where would you be now if I hadn't stopped the train?
Speaker 2: Mh, Well, now there may be something in what you say.
Speaker 1: I'm not denying.
Speaker 3: If we've been going our regular speed, we'd have got
that block slide right about the third car.
Speaker 1: I'll say you would.
Speaker 6: You'd have been down in that canyon too, and it's
three hundred feet deep. As a matter of fact, that's
where you were intended to be.
Speaker 1: Oh is it? Oh? What makes you think? So? Goodbye? Conductor,
I'll see you later.
Speaker 6: Hey, you come back here, he's that guy. Go, Why
come on and get away from the dock. Wait to go, captain.
Speaker 4: Hoty tons of rock by that's nothing, hardly a workout,
anything to put a crimp on the wolf's clams and
Clark Kent reporters simply must be in den for my morning.
Speaker 6: First of all, down into the canyon for the missing rails.
Speaker 1: There they are. Ah, back to the roadbed.
Speaker 4: I never swept up a rock slod before, but there's
nothing like trying. Here we go, Why it's nothing. I'll
have the line clear before that conductor knows I've gone.
The Limited will be in Denver in an hour.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, old done.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: Nothing happened, Nothing happened. What do you mean one of
them things?
Speaker 1: Boys?
Speaker 2: The train stopped on the tress stopped. That train never stops.
Well let's stopped this time. And the guy got out,
and I didn't know, so I shot the stuff. Yes, yes,
I didn't you come out to look? I thought I
gotta stay hidden. Well there was a rock slide and
that's all. The train wasn't scratched. The line's blocked, but
the train ain't. He this man who got out, who
was he after the slide, I snupped down and joined
the mop See. I hearde him talking about a newspaper
guy and looking for him, the name.
Speaker 1: Of Clark Kent. Kent.
Speaker 2: I don't know him. Well, you better because he knows us.
What's I don't know? All I can tell you is
they're looking for him, Clark Kent, a newspaperman who knew
enough to stop that train. Well, we shall look for
it too, my friend. We'll have lots of time. They
won't get the line clear this side of Sunday. We
shall look for this mister Kent, and when we find
him the train they decided to go back to Pueblo.
Let's look, yo, Kino, the train. What it's going west way?
It can't be, Hey, what doub it is? It's on
its way to Denver.
Speaker 1: Why it can't be?
Speaker 2: Why there was twenty tons of rock on the line
we have?
Speaker 1: It's not possible.
Speaker 2: It's not human. But look, well, very well, we got
to Denver tu Chino at once to find out what
goes on and to take care of mister Kent, the newspaperman.
Speaker 6: Get the plane.
Speaker 3: Ready less than twenty four hours to solve the plot
and save the silver Clipper. But now the Wolf is
hard on Clark Kent's trail. What happens in Denver when
daylight comes, when Clark Kent breaks the story, and when
the Wolf meets Superman. Tune in and don't miss it,
and remember be with us again for the next thrilling
installment of Superman.
Speaker 5: Up the Sky. Whoop, it's a bird, It's Superman.
Speaker 3: Superman is the copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comics magazine.