I was gonna say... how hard is it to not get hit by a train? You don't even need to be that far back from the tracks.
Interestingly enough, as a kid watching trains go by, when a freight train was flying by and you were standing near the track, there was a sensation like being drawn into the train.
Under certain circumstances trains seem to approach in silence. When I was 11, a girlfriend and I decided to take a shortcut home by walking across a short railroad bridge. I am as terrified of trains as I am delighted by them, and I was very sure to check carefully in every direction, both looking and listening, before we started across that bridge. we were halfway across when I saw a train coming at high speed. I swear, there was no sound. We could not hear a thing. No way we could outrun it, so we jumped up on the framework of the trestle. It was a bad moment. It wasn’t until it was right with us that we really heard the enormous noise.
I don’t know what this phenomenon is, but it probably explains how some people can get hit by trains when they’re not drunk.