Buster Keaton

Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy

Vernon Dent

Newspaper City Editor

Richard Fiske

Ted Crissman - Racketeer

Ned Glass

Man in Train Station

Lynton Brent

Henchman

Stanley Brown

Reporter

Bud Jamison

Train Conductor

Dorothy Appleby

Mary Crissman

Symona Boniface

Train Passenger

Isabel La Mal

Mary's Aunt

Eddie Laughton

Train Passenger

Jack 'Tiny' Lipson

Angry Man in Pullman Berth

Eva McKenzie

Ma

Cy Schindell

Al Spumoni, mobster

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Train Porter

Victor Travis

Train Passenger

John Tyrrell

Train Passenger

Dorothy Vernon

Train Passenger