For train crews.?

Question

I was working in Fort Lauderdale Florida and I saw a Woman jump in front of a Amtrack passenger train that was moving pretty fast.

Turns out she had inoperable cancer and wanted to end her life.

How often does this happen and has it ever happened on a train you were on. ?

Answer 1

Unfortunatly, like hoghead said, suicide by train is fairly common. Alot more common than alot of us, especialy train crews, would like. I really wish people could kill themselves other ways other than by train. Imagine what it feals like to be the engineer of a train that hit someone & killed them, & that memory probably will stay with that engineer for the rest of his life. Even though it isn't the engineer's fault that someone decided to kill themselves by getting hit by a train, the engineer will probably feal alot of guilt. Like I said earlier, I really wish people wouldn't kill themselves by train, it's becoming a way to common occurance.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, suicide by train is a fairly common occurrence, although the majority of those killed each year are caught by surprise while in their car or walking along the right of way, usually doing something really stupid.

I am a lucky engineer.  I never had the displeasure of killing anyone, which most engineers hope for.  The reality is, when taken as an average, an engineer who works during a thirty year career will kill three people, statistically.

I know of two engineers that were involved with a suicide.  One was right in downtown Reno, Nevada.  Some guy lost it all and, as the train approached, he walked out on the grade crossing and sat down 'Indian style' with his back to the train.  He was successful, but the unfeeling b*****d did so while his wife and two kids looked on.

Another suicide occurred in Chico, California.  In this instance, one train was standing on the main track to allow a train in the opposite direction to clear into the siding.  A boyfriend / girlfriend suicide 'pact' was in place.  The train moving into the siding was traveling at 10 miles per hour, when the man and woman kicked off their shoes and walked to the siding, right in front of the engine that was standing on the main.  He laid his neck across the rail and the next wheel that came along lopped off his head.  The woman, however, changed her mind and didn't go through with it.

I'll bet he was pissed off..........

Answer 3

Two of my engineer crew mates on Metro North have killed at least one person.  One of them was running through Bethel Connecticut on the Danbury Branch of the New Haven line, and as he was rounding the curve, going north into the Bethel station, he saw a man lying with his neck on the rail look up and see the train, and then put his head back down on the track.  The engineer had no time at all to stop, and as a result, beheaded him.  The other engineer was on the Danbury Branch as well, only he was heading southbound, and I believe he said he was in Branchville Connecticut.  There was this teenage boy who would s***w around on the tracks, leaving rocks and other debris on the rails.  One time, he even left his own bike, which this engineer picked up off the track and took it with him....a police report was filed by the kid saying it was stolen, and he took it back.  Anyways, later on that year (this is about 5 years ago), the engineer was running south and he hit the kid by accident, when the kid was placing something on the tracks.  Later that day, he had to talk to the mother, who thought it was his fault, but in reality, it was the kid's fault for doing stuff on the tracks.  Either way, both engineers are still here today, but it is still pretty aweful to hear about these events.

Answer 4

its common ... 2 different couples committed suicide in NJ .. they just stood in front of a locomotive.. quickest way to go ...