underground railway

Currently, the underground railway’s main line winds from northeastern China to southwestern Yunnan province and into Southeast Asia.

“The city of Baltimore now boasts a splendid underground railway, the first ever constructed in the U.S. Two distinct lines of tunnels have been made, at an expense of some five million dollars, whereby nearly all of the various railways now entering in the city have their tracks united. The Underground Railway consists of the Baltimore and Potomac tunnel, under some twenty-nine streets and avenues. The Union Tunnel extends under some thirteen streets and avenues.”

The company will thus drop the word “Métropolitain,” which, shortened into “métro,” has passed into the French language to designate any city underground railway.

There, an “underground railway” — manned by Christian activists, NGOs and “brokers,” or professional people smugglers, many of whom are North Korean defectors themselves — runs on invisible tracks.

Gerald Norman Springer was born Feb. 13, 1944, in a London underground railway station being used as a bomb shelter.