BNSF Spokesman: Act Was 'Incredibly Cruel' POSTED: 9:02 pm CDT July 8, 2004 UPDATED: 9:52 pm CDT July 8, 2004 WELLINGTON, Kan. -- In the pitch blackness of the rural Kansas night, the object lying on the railroad tracks looked like a traffic cone someone had thrown onto the line. The members of the train crew asked each other, "What is that?" They certainly didn't think it was a human being. But the sound of the impact didn't sound like it came from a traffic cone. The train screeched to a stop. Its crew searched the tracks. Nothing.