text:  At these the whole party were soon happily stationed watching the different trains that came sweeping up and down every few minutes; long luggage trains pursuing their heavy way with a business-like solidity worthy of their great weight and respectability; short dapper trains that seemed to take a spurt up the road as if to try their wind and condition; and occasionally a mysterious engine squeaking and hissing and roaring and then with a succession of curious jumps and pantings backing itself half a mile or so down the course and then spluttering and dashing out of sight as if madly intent upon suicide and in search of a stone wall to run its head upon