"Whistle Stop" brings to memory another time and place. The nostalgia and romance of earlier steam engines dance across our mind; when railroads crisscrossed our nation and steam engines called out in lonely voices. This was a time when everyone traveled on the superliners and there was magic in the air. Even some superstition entered the story as railroad men imagined things that might happen. "Clatter of Cleats" and "Pounding Resounding" pick up the rhythm of machinery in the cadency of words.