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...train swerved off the main line and sped down a seldom-used spur leading between low hills, straight to the German border. On D-day minus one, Truksa had motorcycled to Asch and thrown a switch...
...Wife Snubbed. When the express stopped at Pilsen, Karel Truksa, a husky railroader, got on. Two years ago he had been stationmaster at Asch, a mile from the German border. The Communists had found two men hiding in his house "without documents," and Truksa spent five months in a concentration camp. Now he had only a small job at the station in Eger (Cheb...
...down in his third-class compartment on the Asch Express. Truksa carefully patted his pocket to make sure his pistol was still there...
...train was approaching Asch, its last stop. But instead of slowing down, it picked up speed. On the Asch station platform, baggage men watched wide-eyed as the locomotive, a 3-ft.-high Red Star on the front of its boiler, roared toward them. "I pushed the throttle all the way forward," Konvalinka said later...
...train lurched through the Asch station and raced on through the crowded freight yards. Comrade Conductor Beb rushed for the emergency brake and pulled it. Nothing happened: Engineer Konvalinka had done his job well. Beb ran to one of the hand brakes, but the tight-lipped men who had been watching the brakes elbowed him away...