[Rodamala]

You are now apparently 1000 times more likely to be run over by a train if you are a professional fitness instructor than if you actually work for the railroad.

[Vinnie]

Was the engineer white?

[Beagle8U]

And he came just this II close to dying a very healthy corpse.

[jughandle]

Maybe he’ll be a little more careful next time.

Oh.

[353FMG]

Don’t bring your body to a train fight.

[niteowl77]

It depends on so many factors- the weather, the terrain, the condition of the track, the locomotive(s), etc, but a train can be a lot quieter than people expect, and if there was a lot of other ambient noise in the location, or he had earbuds in, he may have heard nothing until it was too late.

Back in my rail louse days, I was surprised by more than one train or cut of cars that I never heard coming. By keeping off the tracks, I wasn't hurt or killed; had I been somewhere on the ties, that would not have been the case. "Everything on a railroad can kill you" isn't far off the mark.

Mr. niteowl77

[yldstrk]

Why should anyone take advice from people too stupid to get out of the way of a moving train?

[ExCTCitizen]

Trespassing on railroad property is wrong...and deadly... a few years ago, I was filming my friend's railroad (he took over an old branch line that was abandoned), so he was switching 7 cars in the old frieghtyard. I was asked by an Obama's sister if I can stop the train. I looked at her and said that she and her 5 kids are trespassing and the crossing is half mile in either direction, but she can't cross here. She got mad and told me to stop the train, since she been crossing there for years. I told her the railroad was built in 1875, so the railroad has the right.

In Maine, a parent sued the railroad because a train ran over her son who was ATVing on the tracks and got hit by the train. A judge threw out the lawsuit...

[Billthedrill]

Stand by for the government to order up a bunch of “Please do not stick body parts in the path of an oncoming train” signs. Because otherwise, how would you ever know not to?

[ArtDodger]

A boy stood on the railroad tracks and didn’t hear the bell
I’d like to tell you the rest of the story but its too sad to tell
Stay away from the railroad tracks, it isn’t the place to play
For trains go fast when they go past and you might be in the way!

[ArtDodger]

‘Hallelujah’, was the only observation
That escaped Lieutenant Colonel Mary Jane
When she stumbled of the platform of the station
And was cut to little pieces by the train
Mary Jane the train is through ya
(Hallelujah, Hallelujah)
We shall gather up the fragments that remain

[tflabo]

More powerful than a locomotive? Ahhh— NO.