I know it’s normal not to click links around here, but if you read the excerpt, they were just on the tracks, there was no gate/crossroad. They weren’t stuck..
I saw that later. Suicidal son/brother, father/son trying to drag him off the tracks.
I still think if it hadn’t been a 150 mph train the result might have been different. Nobody expects something coming at them that fast. They probably thought they had enough time and then they didn’t.