@horroreader410

1 year ago

I've been wait the railroad for 3 years and I still remember the face of the person killed by my train only days after I was out of training. The look of pure frozen terror. I found myself screaming in the cab "get out" over and over again as if they could hear me after the brakes were applied. It was right outside of Indianapolis at 2am. They eventually woke up from being frozen by fear and tried to backup off the tracks but backed into a dirt hill. My locomotive passed by and ripped off his front bumper, however one of the auto rack cars hooked the front and dragged the car into the side of a building past the crossing. He died from being crushed between the building. I still to this day wish I would've just taken 20 extra minutes to use the bathroom or something or even just left a few cars behind so the whole thing could've been avoided. It was hard for me to talk to my wife for weeks after that. Let things like this be a lesson. Regardless of who they are or what they did or who they have, there is ALWAYS, someone that's affected by these deaths. And it falls especially hard on us because we will almost always inevitably feel as if the blood was on our hands. Don't risk it. I case you need to hear it, I care about your life too much to wanna see this happen to you. Please take the extra few minutes. Your life means more to me than the alternative.

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