It was almost dark and Guillermo, the conductor, was nervous. He knew that other trains had been stopped by bandits in the same area, and the passengers and valuable cargo had been robbed. He also knew that in one of those robberies the conductor had been thrown off the train. Nobody was safe! Guillermo lived with his wife and Jos\u00e9, their young son, in a small town that was one of the train stops on this route. On other trips, his family would wait for the train and wave at Guillermo, but today something felt different. The train was packed with passengers and valuable cargo and traveling at normal speed, but suddenly there was an unexpected incident. As he approached the town, Guillermo saw his son signaling with a lantern, and as soon as he got close, he heard: \u201cBridge burning.\u201d The bridge that crossed the river was on fire, and about to collapse in the high flowing river. Guillermo increased the train\u2019s speed to its maximum to try and get over the bridge before it collapsed. He wanted to protect the passengers and the valuable cargo from the bandits, who were thinking of an easy prize once the train fell off the burning bridge and into the deep river.<\/p>\n
Estaba anocheciendo y Guillermo, el conductor, estaba nervioso. Sab\u00eda que en esa zona otros trenes ya hab\u00edan sido asaltados por una banda de ladrones. Tambi\u00e9n sab\u00eda que en uno de esos asaltos el conductor hab\u00eda sido arrojado del tren. \u00a1Nadie estaba seguro! Guillermo viv\u00eda con su esposa y su peque\u00f1o hijo, Jos\u00e9, en un pueblo que era parte de las paradas en esta ruta. Normalmente, cuando pasaba por el pueblo, su esposa y su hijo se asomaban por la ventana para saludarlo, pero ahora Guillermo ten\u00eda un presentimiento de algo inesperado. El tren iba repleto de pasajeros y con mercanc\u00eda muy valiosa, y viajaba a una volocidad normal, pero de repente se present\u00f3 un incidente desafortunado. Al acercarse al pueblo, Guillermo vio que su hijo le hac\u00eda se\u00f1ales con una linterna encendida. En cuanto se acerc\u00f3 lo suficiente pudo o\u00edr que Jos\u00e9 le dec\u00eda: \u201cPuente ardiendo.\u201d El puente estaba ardiendo a a punto de derrumbarse sobre el r\u00edo. Guillermo aument\u00f3 la velocidad del tren al m\u00e1ximo para cruzar el puente antes que se desplomara. Quer\u00eda proteger a los pasajeros y la valiosa mercanc\u00eda ya que los ladrones deseaban conseguir un premio f\u00e1cil y valioso cuando el puente encendido y el tren cayeran a la profundidad del r\u00edo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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