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An individual chose suicide by train yesterday, and they came through the office.

Before, after or during?

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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An individual chose suicide by train yesterday, and they came through the office.

Before, after or during?

You beat me to it. That was my thought too.

Kids with headphones are a real problem, and trains, even monster trains, are much quieter than people think.
A conductor I know rolled up a guy under his train and they dumped the air and stopped. He and the engineer did rock-paper-scissors to see who would walk the train, and he lost. He said it was black as a coal mine and about 1/3 of the way down his lantern went out, but he could get it to come on momentarily by banging it on a car.
Not long after he tripped on a leg and decided he had done enough so went back to the loco.
When LE and EMS arrived he said the EMS guys were grabbing their gear and started running toward the train. He stopped them and said; "Now I'm now Doctor, but I called it about 20 minutes ago."

I wonder how many are true suicides vs people just too stupid or impaired to stay the hell off the tracks

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Originally posted by ryan81986:

A friend of mine works for Amtrak and told me a story about one of his co-workers who was operating a 150MPH train and was coming around a bend and noticed a woman sitting on a rock. The woman then climbed down and ran in front of his train. Later on he found out it was his ex-gf that he had broken up with a week or two prior. She knew his schedule and waited until it was his train that was passing.

Wow. Now that’s creative.

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Originally posted by Jimineer:

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Originally posted by ryan81986:

A friend of mine works for Amtrak and told me a story about one of his co-workers who was operating a 150MPH train and was coming around a bend and noticed a woman sitting on a rock. The woman then climbed down and ran in front of his train. Later on he found out it was his ex-gf that he had broken up with a week or two prior. She knew his schedule and waited until it was his train that was passing.

Wow. Now that’s creative.

150mph?

In 'merca?

Do tell me more.

tac

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Originally posted by EmpireState:
A friend was going through conductor/engineer training as a new hire. He was told that it was an almost certainty that someone would kill themselves in front of his train at some point in his career. They brought in a recent graduate that had it happen to him.

My late father in law was an engineer with the Southern Pacific and he had this happen to him several times in his career. Terrible thing to put these guys through. Decades afterwards, it still affected him.

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Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
I wonder how many are true suicides vs people just too stupid or impaired to stay the hell off the tracks

We seem to have a couple every year. I'm not sure if "Distracted by earphones" is code for suicide. Just a short time ago there was a death. Person was at a crossing as a train passed. Not waiting for the barricades to life, they started to cross. The train that hit them was coming the other way. Now the hue and cry is for "Something needs to be done." Eh, maybe wait until the barricades lift?

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

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Originally posted by Jimineer:

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Originally posted by ryan81986:

A friend of mine works for Amtrak and told me a story about one of his co-workers who was operating a 150MPH train and was coming around a bend and noticed a woman sitting on a rock. The woman then climbed down and ran in front of his train. Later on he found out it was his ex-gf that he had broken up with a week or two prior. She knew his schedule and waited until it was his train that was passing.

Wow. Now that’s creative.

150mph?

In 'merca?

Do tell me more.

tac

The Amtrak Acela (between DC and NYC) is the only commuter service in the US that achieves these speeds, and even then only over about 25 miles of its overall route.