Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II.
The Gila Bend Steam Locomotive Water Stop was built in 1900 and is located in Gila Bend, Arizona Remnants of Turkish railway station in Nitzana, Israel. Left: Water stop. Right: Wall of the Stationmaster's office. A water stop or water station on a railroad is a place where steam trains stop to replenish water. The stopping of the train itself ...
The film is based on a 1979 factual book with the same name about a 1944 Japanese prisoner transport of 2,217 British and Australian POWs, who had been working as forced labour on the Burma Railway, building the bridge over the River Kwai.
Jizera Railway Bridge, crossing the Jizera River between Kořenov and Tanvald, Czech Republic; Jonava railway bridge, crossing the Neris in Jonava, Lithuania; Kerch railway bridge, crossing the Kerch Strait between Krasnodar Krai, Russia and Crimea; Koblenz Aare railway bridge, crossing the River Aare in Aargau canton, Switzerland
The victims were brought from all over Koło County (German: Landkreis Warthbrücken) to Koło by rail with the last stop in Powiercie. Using whips, the Orpo police marched them toward the Warta river near Zawadka, where they were locked overnight in a mill, without food or water. The next morning, they were loaded onto lorries and taken to ...
Audio from dispatch radio, published by Broadcastify, captured the moment police officers rushed to stop traffic and close the bridge — a move that likely saved countless lives — and called ...
The new single-track railway bridge was completed in 1872 at a cost of $1.75 million ($44.5 million in present day terms). In 1877, a tornado weakened the two easternmost spans, requiring them to be replaced with a wooden trestle. [2] In 1885, to keep pace with the growing demand for railway transportation, construction began on a new bridge.
A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border near the cities of International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, has collapsed, and it's unclear when the area will ...