You’d be surprised. I once had a job that had me working alongside the BNSF mainline and you really wouldn’t hear the sound of a train bearing down on you. People are used to hearing the roar as it passes, but that noise isn’t projected ahead of the train. They are far quieter than you would expect. If you’re concentrating on something you could get run down.
But won’t the vibration of the ground give you a clue?
“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...