在这部The Switchman's Tower剧情/短片片中,
Bill is a tower man who sets and resets the switches at a junction of the main line. He has a wife and a little girl. One of the engineers on the road whose headquarters are in the same town, is something of a local sport. The young wife has occasion to compare the respective incomes of this engineer with her hard working husband to the latter's disadvantage, and the engineer invites her to go with him to the Engineer's Association Picnic. Her husband objects, but she goes anyway. After the train has stopped a little way out for water, she gets out of the train and starts to walk back. In the meantime the good husband has kept to his work and also watched over baby. But he did not notice that it had wandered out of the tower, down to the tracks. The mother finding that both baby and husband are missing, starts out to find them. The excursion train is now starting for home; the engineer, much put out, Bill switches a freight train on to a siding to leave the main line clear for the ...
