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By 1909, their trains ran on a busy schedule, taunting bottlenecked traffic on the opposite shore with every steam whistle.

She half heard the steam whistle blow, and half watched the train pull out of the station.

The curfew shriek of the gas company’s commanding steam whistle on Ramirez Street sent kids racing home.

Church bells clang, and in the harbor, ships blare their foghorns and steam whistles shrill.

Screaming in a high-pitched voice like a steam whistle, Margery spun around the room like a top.