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Page 96 FIRST RAILROADS
Mr. G. L. Reed relates that when the construction train
was operating between Falls Creek and DuBois, he and another boy
were gathering blackberries some distance above the railroad. They
had their buckets fairly well filled when they heard the whistle of
the construction train and they were sure that it was a panther. The
boys ran toward the railroad and on the way spilled most of their
berries. When they came to the construction crew and in their
excited condition related to the crew what they had heard, the men
laughed at them and told them that it was the whistle of the train.
They then found the engineer had placed a block in his whistle which
made the singular sound that the boys and the hunters had taken for
the scream of a panther. Mr. Reed said they were glad to give the
remainder of their blackberries to the train crew and the boys went
home with empty buckets.
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