Family Theater: The Last Run
Family Theater · June 17, 1953 · 23 min · 4,141 words
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Family Theater presents Charlie Ruggles, Gail Storm, and Scotty Beckett. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Last Run, starring Charlie Ruggles, and Scotty Beckett. Gail Storm will be your hostess. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives
if we're to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. An hour to our transcribed drama, Last Run starring Charlie Ruggles as Kiefer, and Scotty Beckett as Slim.
Uncle Joe Kiefer had worked on most of the roads and he knew the names of them all. Far back as you'd wanna go. The Charleston and Hamburg, Baltimore, Ohio, the Tonawanda, the Chicago Milwaukee, St. Paul, San Pedro, Western Pacific, anyone you could think of a lot you never heard before.
Like the, like the big Creek Road, the Nashville line, and the Mach-Chunk Railroad, laid way back in 1827. Uncle Joe and Norm, they'd been his whole life, and now that life was almost over. And for some reason or another, he was taking the blame out on me.
Him, swim away. Get over the telegraph shack and see if there's any last minute dispatching instructions. I just came from that 10 minutes ago, Uncle Joe, does, Knuckle. Well, that don't mean they ain't nothing coming since.
Now get a move on. He ain't a conductor yet, not till I turn in my report on you. Okay, Uncle Joe. And stop calling me Uncle Joe. I ain't your uncle. But that's what everybody else on the road calls you.
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