Packard, Frank Lucius: The Wire Devils. v1. 25 Sep 2015
 

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist.

Excerpt
TWO switch lights twinkled; one at the east, and one at the west end of the siding. For the rest all was blackness. Half way between the switch lights, snuggled dose against the single-tracked main line, the station, little more than a shanty and too insignificant to boast a night operator, loomed up shadowy and indistinct. Away to the westward, like jagged points sticking up into the night and standing out in relief against the skyline, the Rockies reared their peaks. And the spell of the brooding mountains seemed to lie over all the desolate, butte-broken surrounding country—for all was utter silence.