Train Wreck Plot

Originally Aired: April 29, 1938The Lone Ranger #820, "Train Wreck Plot," danger comes to the quiet railroad town of Broken Bow when the sinister outlaw Snake Laughlin puts a deadly scheme into motion. Mike Murphy, the engineer of a westbound train stopped overnight in town, finds himself confronted at gunpoint by Snake and his gang. The outlaws demand that Mike pull his train west on the single track before the eastbound arrives in the morning, ensuring a catastrophic collision in the desert. To force his cooperation, they claim to have kidnapped Betty Calkins, the daughter of the town's telegraph operator and the woman Mike hopes to marry.The Lone Ranger and Tonto, already suspicious of Snake's presence in town, witness the confrontation and spring into action. While Tonto follows Snake and his captive engineer to locate their camp and search for the missing girl, the Lone Ranger rides to the Calkins home to determine if Betty has truly been abducted. With only hours until the eastbound train arrives and innocent lives hang in the balance, the masked rider must unravel Snake's plot and rescue Betty before Mike is forced to make an impossible choice.