[Blue Jays]

I will never forget the time the wind was blowing west as I sat upon a platform reading a book.
An eastbound express train with more than a dozen cars zoomed past and I never even heard it coming.
That experience taught me to NEVER divert my eyes when crossing tracks whether in my car, on a bicycle, or on foot.
A speeding train can come upon you in an instant.

[dfwgator]

And worse people go around with their headphones listening to music and don’t hear a thing.

[Kirkwood]

Back in the 1800s and early 1900s when there were very few roads out in the country, the number of deaths by being hit by a train was huge. This is because people on foot or horseback would use the train tracks to travel from town to town. They wouldn’t hear the train approaching from behind and that was the end of the line for them.