Christmas Tree Story #8: Clickety Clack. In 1991, I moved into a house in North Houston. Several weeks passed and I could not understand why I was sleeping so well. It took me a while to figure it out, but the house was located within about... 300 yards of a railroad track. During the night, trains would pass through...clickety clack, clickety clack, clickety clack. My Nanny and Papaw (my mother's parents) lived on Abe street where the railroad tracks cross the boulevard directly in front ...