If you are walking across a train trestle and you are more than halfway across, and you hear a train coming at you... you run toward the train. Because there is less trestle in front of you, than behind you. And so you can reach the end of the trestle before the train does, and then jump off.
Sometimes I think "modern times" (19th, 20th & 21st Centuries) have consisted of God making humanity run ever faster towards the train. And from the looks of things we're now in a flat-out sprint - and we can see the train.
Doggone that’s some image.