Excerpt from Long Look House: A Book for Boys and Girls Another of the sounds that reach Long Look comes from the freight yard of the great railway beyond both river and meadow. There, where the lay of the land gives a chance for it, the two tracks are split up into twenty or thereabouts, and there, by means of other tracks connecting with other roads that enter the city, freight trains are made up or broken up as the case may be. In the day time, when many noises are abroad in the air, and the railway is busiest with ...
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Excerpt from Long Look House: A Book for Boys and Girls Another of the sounds that reach Long Look comes from the freight yard of the great railway beyond both river and meadow. There, where the lay of the land gives a chance for it, the two tracks are split up into twenty or thereabouts, and there, by means of other tracks connecting with other roads that enter the city, freight trains are made up or broken up as the case may be. In the day time, when many noises are abroad in the air, and the railway is busiest with bringing passenger trains, there is little or no disturb ance from this source; but at night, when all the rest of the world is still, Max is sometimes awakened by the screeching locomotives and the heavy rumble of freight cars, sounding forth upon the empty air. He listens attentively to the whistles - one for down brakes, two for up brakes, three for take out the pin; and, as he listens, pictures to himself the train stepping, the train moving on, or the train breaking in two as it makes a running switch, until he gets tired of the noise beyond endurance, and falls asleep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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