"Stay where you are then. Wait till they come out to see what 's th' matter with it."
Red snorted: "Wait nothing!"
"All right, then; I 'm with you. Get out of my way."
"I 've been in situations some peculiar, but this beats 'em all," Red chuckled, crawling forward.
The robber by the car truck revived enough to realize that something was radically wrong, and shouted a warning as he raised himself on his elbow to fire at Skinny but the alert puncher shot first.
As Hopalong and Red emerged from beneath the car and rose to their feet there was a terrific explosion and they were knocked to the ground, while a sudden, heavy shower of stones and earth rained down over everything. The two punchers were not hurt and they arose to their feet in time to see the engineer and fireman roll out of the cab and crawl along the track on their hands and knees, dazed and weakened by the concussion.
