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