- Station Agent Jim: Where is he?
- Paul Dodson: There's two schools of thought on that, Jim.
- Ben Dodson: What do you mean?
- Paul Dodson: He's dead.
- Clint Hackett: The man who controls the shipping costs of cattle in this country can build himself an empire. I'm gonna be that man. With the train wrecked and no contract, Dodson is all washed up. Naturally with Dodson being an old friend of mine, I'll take the railroad off his hands at my price.
- Station Agent Jim: And the Dodson line will be no more than two streaks of rust and a right of way.
- Ben Dodson: With Bud gone, that's the way it'll end up anyway. No sense fighting the luck, it's all bad. Has been ever since my son died.
- Annie Oakley: You have a fine son, Ben, right here. One who's given up an awful lot to make you happy. Can't you realise that?
- Ben Dodson: I realise that more than you think. Paul's not the railroader his brother was. His heart's not in it. And with Bud gone, neither's mine.
- Paul Dodson: High temperature. Deep coma. All the symptoms of thermic fever.
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: What's thermic fever?
- Paul Dodson: Sunstroke, complicated by shock from a fall. It's a wonder he's still alive.
- Annie Oakley: Will he be all right, Paul?
- Paul Dodson: I can't tell, Annie. I'll do all I can.
- Annie Oakley: Come on, Lofty. We've gotta get out there and warn Ben. He's sitting on a hotter kettle than he thinks.
- Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig: Looks like Hackett was trying to corner the market on freight AND cattle, Ben.
- Clint Hackett: You certainly know how to push this old boiler on, Ben.
- Ben Dodson: And I thought I was getting rusty. This is just what I needed.