Actually, the engineer must stay in the cab to control the train. The CONDUCTOR has to walk back and discover the carnage- I’ll never get that out of my mind. Numerous, too many to count.
I didn’t think of that. So sorry that you have to endure those horrible memories.
Usually, the wheels were so hot, from multiple previous braking frictions, that it sorta “ cauterized the peeps- little blood came out.