Jim then declares that he is coming back to work, as he now realizes how dangerous McCabe is. Jim reunites with Gil, who is on the train with Palmer and Linda, and informs him that CC&SJ have obtained an injuction against D&RG, prohibiting them from further construction. Later, Jim hops on a D&RG logging car and rides it until an explosion set by McCabe and Buff causes a landslide on the tracks. Palmer, Gil sparks the ire of Palmer's secretary, Linda Prescott, who denounces Jim as a cowardly killer. While discussing Jim with his sympathetic boss, railroad head Gen. Jim eventually is cleared of murder charges, but refuses to return to the railroad, even after Gil tells him that McCabe has a history of violence. McCabe's cohort, Johnny Buff, witnesses the scene and supports McCabe's claim that Jim shot Bob. Although Bob insists that his company has a legitimate franchise on the land, Jim fights Bob, and during the fracas, McCabe shoots Bob in the back. The hot-headed Jim confronts his competitors, who turn out to be Bob Nelson, a friend from Jim's Civil War days, and his boss, McCabe. In the 1870s, while surveying land for a new branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, engineer Gil Harkness and construction foreman Jim Vesser learn that representatives from the Canon City & San Juan Railroad are also in the area.
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