Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
| Language | en |
|---|---|
| First published | 1998-06-01 |
| Rights | Public domain in the USA. |
| Gutenberg ID | #1364 |
Description
"Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails" by Victor Appleton is a novel published as Volume 25 in the original Tom Swift series. When railroad president Richard Bartholomew faces bankruptcy, he contracts Tom Swift to build a revolutionary electric locomotive capable of reaching 120 miles per hour. But the ruthless owner of a competing railroad will stop at nothing to sabotage the project. Tom and his friends face hired thugs and life-threatening attacks as they race to complete the massive Hercules 0001 locomotive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)