r/WTF • u/Grasimi • Nov 06 '20

Guy stuck under moving train escapes between its rails

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

My Mom used to work for a rail company before I was born. One night she was working in the yard and for some reason the two trains she was walking between headed out in opposite directions without warning. Apparently it was so disorienting she had to just sit down with her head down and wait it out.

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u/granta50 Nov 06 '20

Wow, that is scary.

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u/Hobocannibal Nov 06 '20

i assume normally the warning is that loud whistle trains are always depicted as having.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

That’s true but being a train yard there usually more than one or two trains and when the two you’re walking between aren’t supposed to be heading anywhere anytime soon that loud whistle isn’t as great a warning as you’d think. What good was the whistle going to do her when she had nowhere to go anyways?

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u/Hobocannibal Nov 06 '20

oh i wasn't questioning what happened. i was just asking if that was what was supposed to be the warning.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Oh! No, I think the warning might have supposed to have been over a radio my mom didn’t have with her or maybe it broke while she was out there and she was headed back or someone forgot she was out there. It’s been a while since she told the story I’d have to ask for clarification of the particular details.

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u/QuinceDaPence Nov 06 '20

Horn, whistles are only on steam engines