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If the mining company Cloud Peak Energy has its way, many more trains will thunder across the prairie to far larger proposed export terminals in Washington State.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2013

This coming June, Emerica, in conjunction with Boost Mobile and TransWorld Skateboarding Magazine, will thunder down the open highways on their Harley Davidson motorcycles, invade America�s heartland and pillage campsites in a town near you!

From Time Magazine Archive

And of all the machinery thrown into the heavens since the space age began only 29 months ago, Pioneer V alone has a voice that will thunder through history.

From Time Magazine Archive

Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, Saturn will thunder to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,000 m.p.h. in only 2� minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the voice of doom, for presently the 2.19 freight-train will thunder slowly through our end of the town.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various