- Silent film drama depicts effect on everyone as color blindness becomes a concern due to "railroad improvements", the color light block signal.
- This generally historic drama depicts the railroad issue of the day circa 1910-1915, when railroad signals were changing from the moving arm semaphore to simple color lights (red and green) and railroads learned many engineers were red-green color blind. This shows people losing their jobs and even a head-on collision, depicting the effect of these historic railroad improvements.—Dalaye Gabriel
- "Jovial Joe" Ryan, a crack railroad engineer for 20 years, discovers during a card game with his pal, "Roadhouse" Rosen, that his eyes are failing him and he is becoming colorblind. Bert Steel, Ryan's fireman, who is in love with his daughter, Grace, is angered when Ryan passes the examination, ruining his chance for promotion and winning Grace. Ryan confides to Bert that he needs his assistance in watching the block signals; and when Bert misinforms him, he is demoted to signalman because of a wreck and Bert is promoted to engineer. Ryan, meanwhile, invents an automatic signaling device; and though Bert attempts to sabotage his plan to test it, the device successfully prevents another train wreck.—AFI
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