The Young Railroaders: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Young Railroaders, credited to Francis Lovell Coombs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Young Railroaders, by Francis Lovell Coombs. Read by Mark F. Smith. While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, trained as telegraphers, manage to get themselves in and out of a wide variety of harrowing circumstances. Using their knowledge of Morse code, the science of telegraphs, and the operation of railroads, the boys stir in native resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and when the occasion demands it, raw courage - to effect rescues, thwart thieves, and solve mysteries. If Tom Swift had lived in the nineteenth century, he could not have had more exciting escapades! (Summary by Mark F. Smith)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Young Railroaders
• Author credits: Francis Lovell Coombs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 8:20:36

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• young adult
• children
• adventure
• railroads

Track guide

1. 01 - One Kind of Wireless — 26:21
2. 02 - An Original Emergency Battery — 15:20
3. 03 - A Tinker Who Made Good — 24:06
4. 04 - The Other Tinker Also Makes Good — 15:40
5. 05 - The Electrical Detective — 21:26
6. 06 - Jack Has His Adventure — 17:53
7. 07 - A Race Through the Flames — 16:16
8. 08 - The Secret Telegram — 16:31
9. 09 - Jack Plays Reporter, With Unexpected Results — 21:15
10. 10 - A Runaway Train — 16:22
11. 11 - The Haunted Station — 22:58
12. 12 - In a Bad Fix, And Out — 21:58
13. 13a - Part 1, Professor Click, Mind-Reader — 20:46
14. 13b - Part 2, Professor Click, Mind-Reader — 23:27
15. 14 - The Last of the Freight Thieves — 25:17
16. 15 - The Dude Operator — 24:34
17. 16 - A Dramatic Flagging — 19:44
18. 17 - Wilson Again Distinguishes Himself — 25:17
19. 18 - With the Construction Train — 22:58
20. 19 - The Enemy's Hand Again, and a Capture — 22:00
21. 20 - Prisoner — 18:46
22. 21 - Turning the Tables — 31:57
23. 22 - The Defence of the Viaduct — 29:58

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