About Tillie

Quite possibly, though the tower's gonna probably be mad enough at how the rail-line's been split by the collapse of the bridge

Good point...I'm sure she got into a bit of trouble for going against the boss, but at the same time she did get the train through to it's destination, saving the railroad company from having to compensate for a canceled shipment of toys....and she herself COULD report the tower dispatcher guy to the railroad higher ups for him falling asleep on the job....so they could have called it a draw. Who knows....the tower probably saw how much Tillie liked hauling trains over the mountain.....so he probably assigned her one.....the work train needed to fix the bridge over the gorge!