Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive Author:Victor Appleton An electric locomotive that can make two miles a minute over a properly ballasted roadbed might not be an impossibility " said Mr. Barton Swift ruminatively. "It is one of those things that are coming " and he flashed his son Tom Swift a knowing smile. It had been a topic of conversation between them before the visitor from the West had been s... more »eated before the library fire and had sampled one of the elder Swift's good cigars. (Excerpt)« less