Their parents should be sterilized

[Cobrabill]

Originally Posted by Power Surge

I had a customer who was a train operator. I was talking to him one day about reading something about a guy getting killed by a train. He told me that he ran a guy over about 7 years ago. All you can do is blow the horn, you can't stop the train in time. He said that it happens much more often than people think. I have no clue what would possess someone to do anything of that nature.

Most critical incidents you'll never hear about.
In Tucson,double mains run east thru downtown to the yard.Near the tracks are a few bars mostly frequented by college age folks.A couple of idiots decided they were going to"hop some trains".One would text the other and say-"i'm on this one here".The other would text back-"well, i'm on this one down here".
They didn't know about a thing called "slack action".On rail cars you have a drawbar & coupler on each end.Drawbars are spring loaded(to a degree) and contract and lengthen with train movement.They absorb SOME of the shock(among other things) to reduce the amount transfering to the car it self and contents.
Example:A auto train has cars that the drawbar will extend or retract 12 inches or so.So if the train is 100 cars long(2 drawbars per car),the back end of the train can move 200 feet with the head end stationary.

Well,one of the two genius' wasn't hanging on tight and when the slack ran out it popped him off and he fell between the cars.The train behind found the body with cell phone still in hand,text message on the screen...headless