I actually feel pretty sorry for the poor guy running that train.
My uncle used to work for the railroad, and as I hear it they actually have support groups for conductors...the dumbasses who walk out on the tracks are so numerous that pretty much any conductor who's worked for a few years has hit at least one person. That's got to get to you after a while....
HemlockGrey wrote:
Of course, it's a lot easier to stop a slow-moving bulldozer when you see an orange-shirted protestor standing some distance away (and he could have always *swerved) than it is to stop a fast-moving freight train in which the engineer probably cannot make out human shapes from a distance or have a lot of time to react.
Except for the fact that a heavily armored D9 has jack shit for visibility directly ahead and below of the cab, even without the armor you couldn't see a person lying on the ground, which is what the proters who got squashed was doing very easily thanks to the huge size of the blade.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
