A DeSoto Parish man was killed Sunday night after being hit by a train while riding a UTV on the railroad tracks going into ...

Seventy-five years ago, in June 1942, the Japanese Occupation Army commissioned the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway that later gained its infamous name, the Death Railway.

The project, later called the "death railway," became infamous for its brutal ... made famous by the 1957 Oscar-winning film ...

starvation, sickness and deaths that occurred during the building of the 400km track between Rangoon (now Yangon) and Bangkok which is also known as the Death Railway.

They would spend three and a half years of hard labour building the Burma Railway, which became known as the "death railway" due to the loss of life suffered. It will be the first time a new roll ...