In this short story, Trace Conger sets this tale of suspense, desperation and abandonment against the vivid backdrop of the Wild West. Caught between a charging posse of U.S. marshals and their fate on the gallows, three outlaws make their escape through a secluded mountain pass. Weary and wounded, they find hope in an unscheduled passage aboard the Speculator Line, a mining train that had ceased running years earlier. They're about to discover that survival takes more than being quick with an iron, that sometimes death is an illusion, and that some trains never stop running.