Looking for a ghost train, gets killed by real one

[bikkuri bahn]

Lesson one: don't trespass on the railroad, especially on a bridge(!)

Lesson two: don't trespass on a U.S. railroad, where freights can come anytime (no schedules), and passenger train schedules are just estimates (or hopes).

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/08/27/north.carolina.ghost.train/index.html?iref=obinsite

[KenS]

One of the problems here is that there are so few active rail lines left, and so many abandoned or nearly-abandoned (i.e. one trip a week or less) lines, that people aren't used to thinking about trains as a danger.  As a result, they trespass and often get killed by trains they never heard coming (riding noisy motor bikes or wearing headphones) or that they couldn't escape.

 

But crossing a bridge in the dark, and one which was probably fenced and would have had large "no trepassing" signs and other warnings at the end, is still behavior worthy of a Darwin award.