Droben im Hochgebirge, wo die Fahrstraße sich mühsam über den Paß windet und die letzten, hohen, schwarzgrünen Tannen den Weg säumen, ehe sie mehr und mehr zusammenschrumpfen zu Unterholz und niederem Busch, steht ein kleines, dürftiges Häuschen, in welchem der Wildhüter jahraus, jahrein in tiefster Weltabgeschiedenheit haust.
As the clock ticks down the final minute of World War II in Europe, Sixty Seconds tells the stories of nine people on both sides of the Atlantic- a legendary war correspondent, a madwoman and her unwitting accomplice in a deranged assassination attempt, a fifteen-year-old girl singing the Star-Spangled Banner in Times Square, her soldier brother still in Germany, a Nazi war criminal undergoing interrogation, a German foot soldier frantically dodging Russian patrols as he attempts to surrender to Americans, and a Polish couple who endured the seemingly unendurable only to be separated by an ocean as they are about to become parents.
Engine 331, the biggest mountain passenger-train puller on the Nevada Short Line, was a Pacific-type compound, with a bewildering clutter of machinery underneath that made a wiper's job a sort of puzzle problem; the problem being to get the various gadgets clean without knocking one's head off too many times against the down-hanging machinery.
