They rode on mules with gilded bridles, rich saddles and housings, carrying hawks on their wrist, followed by an immense train of attendants.

* 1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4, 000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.

In 1799, British ships harassed Bonaparte's army as it marched east and north through Palestine, and played a crucial part in Bonaparte's defeat at the Siege of Acre, when the barges carrying the siege train were captured and the French storming parties were bombarded by British ships anchored offshore.

* 1984 – The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.

* 2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.

The significance of the railways to the Civil War of the Finns is well symbolized by the most modern and frightening weapon used in the turmoil: armoured train, carrying light cannons and heavy machine guns.

* 1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.

When a train carrying about 1, 000 German Jews arrived at Riga in Latvia on November 29, 1941, Lange simply had them shot.

* February 18 – A train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertiliser, and sulphur derails and explodes in Iran, killing 320 people.

The blue squad was responsible for unloading the train, carrying the luggage and cleaning the wagons.

Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.

Thomas McDougald, had been assigned to escort the slower pack train carrying provisions and additional ammunition.

A Eurostar train broke the record for the longest non-stop high-speed international journey in the world on 17 May 2006 carrying the cast and filmmakers of The Da Vinci Code from London to Cannes for the Cannes Film Festival.

Soon after, the English king followed, carrying in his train the Stone of Scone and other relics of Scottish nationhood.

Zachs discovers that they are on the wrong tracks and are on a collision course with a Southern Pacific bulk freight train carrying gasoline tank cars.

Fudan University has been carrying out a profound reform in its undergraduate program, aiming at quality higher education and intending to train more creative talents for the world.

The special chartered train carrying the men up from Texas stopped at Casper.

Another was the Headford Junction ambush in spring 1921, when IRA units ambushed a train carrying British soldiers outside Killarney.

As the gang scrambles to gather up the money, a second train arrives carrying a six-man team of lawmen.

Also the same year, he starred as a veteran railroad engineer in the action film Unstoppable, about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train carrying a dangerous cargo.

He claimed to have defeated an attempt at vote fraud by Republicans by ordering the delay of a train that was carrying men to vote illegally in another county, enabling Douglas to win the county.

Mule train from Supai carrying U. S. Postal Service boxes

When it was later learned the train was possibly carrying ammonia, Haubstadt was mostly evacuated, mainly by people with respiratory illnesses such as asthma.

The train was carrying $ 17, 000 in silver.

This design is also used in train carriages in areas where the waste is allowed to be simply dumped between the tracks ( the flushing of such toilets is generally prohibited when the train is in a station ).

A large West London Waste Authority bulk rubbish handling depot lies to the east of the station which sees a daily waste train in operation.

In 2000, the station was damaged by a fire on a waste collection train, just after the subway had closed for the night.

This park was developed on existing waste and industrial land, at grid reference, just seven minutes by Olympic Javelin train from central London.

A waste disposal company has a Russian nuclear bomb to transport, and an employee decides to save money by concealing it on a freight train.

The locomotive used two turbine engines, was equipped for passenger train heating with a steam generator that utilized the waste exhaust heat of the right hand turbine, and was geared for While it was demonstrated successfully in both freight and passenger service on the PRR, MKT, and CNW, no production orders followed, and it was scrapped in 1953.

Green containers on train are for hauling municipal solid waste ( trash ).

The station ( which dates from 1850 ) is a busy freight location, as much of the nuclear waste for Sellafield's Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is carried by train here from the docks in Barrow-in-Furness or from rail-connected nuclear power stations elsewhere in the UK.

Currently in use at Littlehampton is a carriage shed used to store, maintain and clean Class 377 ' Electrostars ' and Class 313s ; more recently next to the shed, two more sidings have been fitted with waste disposal facilities to empty train toilets and are used to store trains over night.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Mama stooped down to fix the train, but there was no train there!!

Mama swirled the train in place, and not a step was lost.

it was another to house, feed, and train them.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

Nothing was said about hotels or train journeys.

And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

At a siding, another train which was a familiar sight these days.

She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.

Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

Shippin' cattle by train was called a `` stock run ''.

But there he was at the train with an Oregon State pennant in his hand.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In spite of this, he went to Italy in 1132 in the train of the king, and his services there were rewarded in 1134 by the investiture of the Northern March, which was again without a ruler.

He was equally comfortable distributing his translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care to his bishops so that they might better train and supervise priests, and using those same bishops as royal officials and judges.

The school specialized in engineering and petroleum chemistry, and was designed to train staff for the refinery in town.