The particular baggage and passenger cars that were to be used, had to be separated from the others, and arranged in their proper order.

Another track was kept clear, for the train that was soon to arrive.

Two or three locomotives, outside of the depot, were fizzing and hissing, occasionally moving back or forward, with a loud coughing noise, or changing from one track to another.
The bell of the looked-for train was at length heard.

The engine, as it approached, was switched upon a side-track, but the cars, from which it had been detached, kept on their course until the brakes brought them to a stand in the depot.

The passengers now swarmed forth by hundreds--a curious and motley crowd of men, women, and children; good-looking people, and ill-looking ones; the fine lady in silk, and the rough backwoods-man in homespun; the middle-aged woman in black, with three trunks and four bandboxes, and the smooth-faced dandy, whose sole baggage was a slender cane.
The cars were at length emptied of their living freight, and most of the passengers had secured their baggage.