train-stealing

Updated: May 8, 2025

But one finds an almost complete detachment, as if the frontier line were an ocean. "We send goods into Poland and the Polish Government sequesters them," say the Czechs. "We load our trains with stuff for them, and then our trains never come back. Many whole trains have disappeared in Poland, and we get no satisfaction." A new type of crime train-stealing! "No," says Dr.

Stephen Graham - Europe—Whither Bound?: Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921

So we will do our bridge-burning and our train-stealing on Friday, before the railroad is obstructed with trains bringing Confederate reinforcements to the latter city." Even in the darkness one could detect the gleam in the eyes of the men as they saw before them, with pleasure rather than fear, the risky part they were to play in the drama of warfare. The eyes of George sparkled, likewise.

Edward Robins - Chasing an Iron Horse: Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War