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Sentence Explanation

1. Just over a slight rise to the west, a 19-car freight train slowly made its way up the incline.
On the other side of a small hill to the west, a 19-car freight train slowly climbed up the slope.

2. Falzo knew right away that the train was going too fast to stop in time.
Falzo quickly realized that the train was going too fast to stop before it hit the children.

3. ... Falzo knew he couldn’t outrun it.
...Falzo knew he couldn’t run faster than the train.

4. With one child tucked under each arm, he pressed Todd and Scott down into the roadbed gravel.
He held the two kids one under each arm and pushed them down into the roadbed gravel between the rail tracks.