Posted on 11/28/2018 6:00:55 AM PST by Gamecock
Thought it was a odd place to bury someone next to bridge railing or a culvert.
It surprised me.
Shocked me, as I didn’t think a train could move so silently.
Had we been on the tracks I don’t know that we could have jumped out of the way in time.
Freight cars that have been pushed into a switch yard can surely sneak up on you. Locomotives, well that is difficult to imagine give that the ground shakes right along with all of the other racket.
Indeed if your going to play with trains better know what they do.
“Seemed to start around the mid-1990’s”
I remember it back in the 1950’s
“Were these guy deaf, dumb and blind ? How can you not be aware of a frigging train ?”
On occasion my job had me working right next to the BNSF tracks. Lots of fast freights, Amtrak, and Metroliners. One thing I learned is that you couldn’t always rely on your hearing to warn you of an approaching train.
Sometimes you would hear them coming, but other times you’d be busy doing something and it would seem as if some huge train had appeared out of nowhere. At over 60 mph they can be on you in a hurry.
I usually interact with trains at crossings, with bells, lights, horns, etc. so my experience probably doesn’t count for much. It does make sense that a approaching train isn’t loud , the sound perhaps similar to a boat’s wake, the sound is dissappated to the side or rear. Sound is a funny thing. For the childhood house, We could hear trains plain as day, even though the tracks where, as the crow flys, a little over a mile away.
“the sound perhaps similar to a boat’s wake, the sound is dissappated to the side or rear”
That’s what I suspect too, since they are plenty loud when they are rolling past you. But I do know that they sure can sneak up on you.
Someone leave some dandelions for this one. Don’t buy flowers for a fool.
‘Same for the highways on Oahu, Hawaii, back in the 50s.
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