eleven o'clock
But she 'll be back this morning sometime and you 'll have a nice ride to the Landing . '' Then he laughed . `` That is , if you can pull a heavy passenger coach over them tracks . '' It was eleven o'clock when the old-fashioned engine reappeared but any motive power seemed good enough and when the little Irish conductor read his orders , he cheerfully busied himself in making the passenger car and the three other cars a part of his train . The spirit of discontent disappeared and once again the northbound expedition was on its way . Until twelve o'clock that night , the indefatigable little Irishman pushed his heavy train , which included many cars of long-delayed freight , over the new tracks , which alternately seemed to float and sink into the soft sand and muskeg . Four times in that journey some one car of the train slid off the track and just as often the energetic crew pulled it back again .