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Yesterday, about 3 PM here in Nashvile, TN, a 49 year old man was walking facing away from a moving CSX freight train while wearing ear buds. Witnesses say he did not respond to repeated horn blasts from the engine, and was struck and killed instantly. Police are investigating presumably to rule out a suicide. My sympathy goes out to the crew in that cab, who were helpless after making an emergency application.

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Also:  suicide has become one of the top three causes of death in the US.  And because of air-conditioned "Comfort Cabs" and the removal of the caboose, folks see trains as large mechanical faceless devices.  Maybe a cause of inconvenience... maybe a tool for a suicide... but not a vehicle with a human being at the controls.  There just isn't the human interaction there once was.

Jon

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Shouldn't the title of this thread go something like this...

Man Walks In Front OF Train At Crossing

After all, it's NOT the fault of the train or the Engineer, there's nothing they can do about these situations.

It depends if you are a normal person or a railfan/modeler/railroader. The former just states what happened. The latter feels the need to expand the description to why it happened.

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