I argued that it was not so trivial, that were it not for the precious accident of the train schedule, I would be in prison or dead.

我想胜利不能算小，如果没有火车时刻表给我的宝贵的抢先一着，我早就给关进监狱或者给打死了。

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As the train crossed a river I took out of my pocket the object that had dropped from Caswell's dead hand.

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

BBC: US train crash deaths confirmed

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 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