The date and year is February 10th, 1960 (Clarence Coyote's first night in the year 1960). The time is 2:07 am...two hours after the end of February 9th. The place is Duran, New Mexico; This is the Southern Pacific, southbound, passenger train that speeds through the small community of Duran, New Mexico at 80 mph each night at 2:07 am. The railroad line runs by two street blocks away from the home of Al and Marge Coyote and their cubs; Jed, Rex, Donna, and step son Clarence. In parts 2 and 27 of Clarence Coyote and Project Courier, that train is mentioned;
The train comes through Duran each night in the same fashion as the train in the linked video does; https://youtu.be/uNwAEptoNl0?t=80
In pic # 1, the passenger car where the panda, two skunks and the raccoon are riding is blocking the view of where you could see the part of the neighborhood where Al, Marge and the cubs reside.
In pic # 2, you can see the snout of the wolf who is one of the locomotive operators.
This is the Route 3 crossing a short distance after Route 3 comes off of Highway 54. As a parenthetical note; That railroad crossing does exist in real life, though I'm not aware what kind of signals were used at that location in 1960. Back in the day, there were railroads out west that did use a variety of signal configurations at their crossings. That line was bought out by Union Pacific when Southern Pacific went out of business around the end of the 20th Century.
This is an excerpt from Clarence Coyote's first night trapped in the year 1960; After supper, it was decided it had been a long day with so much going on, so everyone was going to get to bed early. Being that everyone had been out in the rain and wind earlier in the day, the cubs, including Clarence, was sent to go get a bath...Afterwards, Mom and Dad got their bath. Then it was off to bed for the night. A place was originally fixed for Clarence to sleep on a living room sofa that pulled out as a bed. However, Clarence being in the living room by himself began to feel so lonely after everyone else went to bed. Because it was February the Siegler oil heater in the living room was running...It was the kind fed by an oil drum, elevated on legs, from outside the house. The oil heater, with it's tiny mica window to observe the flame flicker, had a motorized fan which produced a sound that would normally be a soothing "white noise" to sleep by during the night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITr-PErAwz8 But for Clarence, the heater's fan sounded mournful, thus further invoking that feeling of loneliness...On a living room corner table, the radio played 'Look Homeward Angel' barely loud enough to hear, but that didn't do much good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvmbDgvScQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYs5KFhlpc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHaqs7juzAY
Later into the night, at 2:06 am, Clarence awoke on that pull out sofa bed in the living room as the radio softly played 'Love is All We Need'...accompanied by the low hum of that Seigler oil heater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKqAJenGBaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5yC73cnIcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTYHt09QEmM At 2:07 am, it was about a minute into the song, when on the railroad tracks that ran through the small community of Duran, an 80 mph, southbound, passenger train approached, blowing it's horn for the crossing with local route 3 as the crossing bell began clanging. Twelve seconds later, the sound could be heard of the locomotives speeding by, and the rapid clacking of the wheels of the passenger cars until the train had passed. https://youtu.be/uNwAEptoNl0?t=80 (except not quite the train in the video, but the one in the inserted image).
Clarence grabbed the blankets off the pullout sofa bed, and went into Al and Marge's bedroom as the radio in the living room continued to softly play 'Love is All We Need'. ...... https://youtu.be/oKqAJenGBaU?t=90 Without words said, Al and Marge invited Clarence into their bed between them for the night...Usually, Al and Marge has sex every night in bed...But this night, it was more important to let Clarence feel like he has a place he can call 'family and home'. Snuggled up to Al and Marge, Clarence felt that loving, safe and secure feeling like he was with Mom and Dad...Needless to say, for the rest of the night, Clarence slept well feeling loved, safe, comfortable and secure. More than two hours later, at 4:14 am, a northbound freight train went through Duran, which of course Clarence, like everyone else, slept through the sounds of the passing freight train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfCSQpCTSqw
