Word: railways
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...corridor of the Laramie County jail. Militiamen were posted outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited in for the event, were asked to sing his favorite hymn, Life's Railway to Heaven. A minister said a prayer. Tom cracked a joke. Water trickled out of a tank; the trap was sprung...
Joseph Henry Harley had traveled thousands of miles in his 32 years with the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, but he never left the bustling gloom of the Crewe railway yard near Liverpool. He was just a cog in its sprawling machine, driving a dumpy, asthmatic shunting engine back & forth, day after day. He never married, he never made many friends, he never talked much. He just watched the majestic trains passing him from places he had never seen, bound for places he would never know...
...years ago railway police began to notice that more & more big locomotives were having accidents at the Crewe yard. A check of timecards showed Harley had been on duty whenever an accident occurred...
There are rides on plaster elephants, Hindu immolation ceremonies, Chinese opium hells, Japanese circuses, storms at sea, pistol shots, gas explosions, collapsing railway bridges, Indian raids, eagles swooping down on human prey. It's pretty fast & furious horseplay, but not quite enough...
...production. Then the plot drops Ladd and Fitzgerald into Nazi-held France, but leaves all novelty behind. Most of the incidents based on real O.S.S. experiences turn out to be the old, threadbare ingredients of wartime melodrama: contacting the French underground, short-waving vital messages to London, dynamiting a railway tunnel, throwing the beautiful female operator to the Gestapo wolf...