Empty trains clattered through the four states that were tied, as neighbors, to the throat of Colorado.

Then, after a great deal of whistling and shouted orders, the train clattered forward.

The branch-line train had clattered in, and Chan was calling to him from the car steps.

"I have an enormous sense of having failed in life," he said, as the northbound train stopped and then clattered away.

The train clattered through a long tunnel, over a deep moat of water and then another wall.

The train was clattering around a curve, away from the highway where the automobiles were due.

The mule train clattered closer and then stopped nearby.

The train clattered over points and passed through a station.

The train clattered over points as it began to slow.

A train clattered by outside the window, headed for Sullivan Square.