On a fog-shrouded evening on the penultimate day of 1906, a dead-heading train roared down this stretch of tracks near Washington's Catholic University, coming upon a slower passenger train heading the same direction on the same track.

CNN: Welcome to obscure Washington, D.C.

The female driver of the moving train was among the dead.

BBC: US train crash deaths confirmed

Miss Pickering was pronounced dead at the scene after being hit by the Waterloo to Exeter express train.

BBC: Charlene Pickering killed trying to get phone from tracks

People thronged to the main hospital in Allahabad to see if their relatives were among 36 dead and 30 people injured in Sunday evening's stampede at the city's train station.

NPR: 36 Dead In Stampede At Hindu Festival In India

The movie Roger Ebert calls "a first-rate thriller" tells the tale of a fateful train trip, with strangers offering to "exchange" murders, each killing the person the other wants dead.

ENGADGET: Hitchcock classics Dial M for Murder (3D) and Strangers on a Train come to Blu-ray October 9th