Boston Blackie - The Derailed Gold Train

Bob and Tom, locomotive engineers and employees of the company that owns Metropolitan Flyer Express, are on the train as it speeds through Danville, Illinois. Bob asks "Is that you, Tom?" He says "Yeah, Bob". Tom asks "Are we on time?" Bob says "Yeah, we just high-balled through Danville". Tom says "Oh, we're coming to that bad curve, huh?" Bob says "It's not the curve that's bad, Tom. It's the grid crossing just around it that I don't like. Hope they make an underpass out of it pretty soon. Where have you been?" Tom says "Back in the baggage car, and I've never seen so many armed guards in my life. What are we carrying?" Bob says "Gold, and plenty of it. We go nonstop from the capital all the way to the city". Tom says "Gold, huh. Well, I guess if we were back in the days of Jesse James we'd be worried about being stopped. Hey, Bob, we are coming to that crossing". Bob says "Yeah, and then that crossing". As the train travels through the dangerous curve, Tom says "Hey Bob, look. There's a car stopped on the crossing!" Bob says "Yeah, I see it!" Tom asks "Can we stop in time?" Bob says "No, we couldn't see it after coming around that curve! We're going to hit that car, and we're going to hit it hard! Hold on Tom!" A terrible crash is heard. The next day, Blackie is talking to Mary on the phone. He says "Hello Mary, this is Blackie". Mary says "Oh hello Blackie. Are you back in town?" He says "No Mary, I'm not. I'm still down here in Danville at the train station". Mary asks "When are you coming back?" Blackie says "Well, that's why I called you Mary. I've just finished my business here, but there's not another train out of here for six hours, so I won't see you until late tonight". As he finishes up his phone call, he soon learns of the previous day's events concerning the Metropolitan Flyer Express.