What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles help railroad engineer Bob Sharon finish a track into Silver Site before a deadline. Someone keeps sabotaging the line, dropping boulders onto the tracks and setting traps. Bill suspects Conrad Holt, a stockholder who opposes the railroad and whose freight company stands to lose business. Bill and Jingles confront Holt and his hired men while Bill tries to find a way to get the rails laid in time. The Wild Bill Hickok series was broadcast in 1952, and this episode is titled The Deadlock at Silver Site.
The American West in the snowy winter, along a railroad line being built toward the town of Silver Site.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Bob Sharon, Conrad Holt, Fresno, Mayor Salzy
Listen for: Bill's idea to lay the last stretch of track on the frozen river, and the fight on the ice.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.