“People are used to hearing the roar as it passes, but that noise isn’t projected ahead of the train.”
I see. My argument is that BOTH these people should have seen at least 1) oh a train is coming 2) rumbling on the tracks.
It’s like I can usually “sense’ my Gf coming to bother me from the next room to ask for my credit card to buy clothes for example...
Those two probably made the same assumption. People naturally think that they will hear or sense a train coming at them.