In my freshman year in college, a student was killed by a slow moving freight train while walking between the dorm and the campus. We all wondered how it possib

In my freshman year in college, a student was killed by a slow moving freight train while walking between the dorm and the campus. We all wondered how it possibly could have happened. A few months later we understood. The first few times you see a bellowing metal beast with its horn blaring, you can't help but to watch out for it. A few hundred safe encounters later and it actually becomes very easy to ignore it. There were some other near misses that year.