question: How do people get snuck up on by trains when they're so loud?
comment: Other noise, including other trains. A person was killed in seattle a few years ago standing on tracks watching a train go by on the other tracks. Their friends could see the train behind them and yelled but the victim couldn't hear anything over the first train
passages: BULLET::::- Train noise can be a type of environmental noise. When a train is moving, there are several distinct sounds such as the locomotive engine noise and the wheels turning on the railroad track. The air displacement of a train or subway car in a tunnel can create different whooshing sounds.
  
  BULLET::::- Trains also employ horns, whistles, bells, and other noisemaking devices for both communication and warning.
   Train noise
  
  Train noise is vehicle noise created by trains. Noises may be heard inside the train and outside. Various parts of a train produce noise, and different kinds of train wheels produce different amounts of noise. Noise barriers can attenuate the noise.
  
  Subways, Light Rail transit and freight trains can send loud train noise into neighborhoods. Organizations such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have set guidelines for noise level decibel limits for Rapid Transit
  
  Section::::Sources.
   Foer utilizes the child narrator in an attempt to connect with that struggle. The struggle of the child to understand the trauma is reflective of the struggle many faced after the trauma of the 9/11 attacks.
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  BULLET::::- Normal departure from station on receipt of clear signal. This is usually followed by another long blast about 10–20 seconds after the first one, after the guard's all-right signal is received.
  
  BULLET::::- Beginning of shunting operation (if shunted rake has passengers in it)
  
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  BULLET::::- Call for guard's signal
  
  BULLET::::- Signals not exchanged by guard
  
  BULLET::::- Signals not exchanged by station staff
  
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  BULLET::::- Guard to release brakes
  
  BULLET::::- Before starting engine from a midsection/station
  
  BULLET::::- Main Line clear
  
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   The train's drive machinery is isolated from the train environment, therefore noise levels along the track and in the station platforms are very low and there are no emissions.
   Section::::Plot.
   Portland police described Christian "as yelling and ranting and raving a lot of different things, including what we characterized as hate speech or biased language".
   Passengers further back in the train heard explosions. "The thing that precipitated people really starting to freak out and break the glass and open the door was there was a loud 'bam,' explosion-type thing," said Fred Buonocore, who was in the fourth car. "And once we jumped off the side, there was another explosion to a lesser degree." At the very rear, passengers said they felt only a small jolt. "It felt not even like a short stop, and then the train just completely stopped," said Neil Rader, who was sitting in the middle-back of the train.
   BULLET::::- Fireman James Alexander Murray, aged 29, was employed as a fireman by the ICG on 8 June 1973, entering engineer training on 28 June 1978, completing it on 26 April 1979. He was not restricted in any way.
  
  BULLET::::- Baggageman Donald Eugene Schwieger, aged 30, was employed as a brakeman by the ICG on 8 December 1967, being promoted to conductor on 6 October 1972. He was not restricted in any way.
   At one point during the fire, eight CSXT trains that would have used the tunnel were detouring through Cumberland, Maryland, and Youngstown Ohio; five through Hagerstown and Harrisburg; five through Cleveland and Albany, New York; and 12 trains were stopping in various yards.
   Section::::Run-round.:Examples.
  
  Stations which used to have run-rounds include:
  
  BULLET::::- UK
  
  BULLET::::- St Ives railway station
  
  BULLET::::- Matlock Riverside railway station, now closed
  
  BULLET::::- Australia
  
  BULLET::::- Murwillumbah railway station, now closed
  
  BULLET::::- Toronto railway station, New South Wales, now closed
  
  BULLET::::- Cronulla railway station, had run-round, but never had locomotives
  
  BULLET::::- Newcastle railway station, New South Wales, now closed; run-round on Platform 1&2, not on Platform 3&4
  
  Stations which still have run-rounds include:
  
  BULLET::::- UK
  
  BULLET::::- Weymouth railway station
  
  BULLET::::- Fort William railway station
  
  BULLET::::- Morecambe railway station
  
  BULLET::::- Rowsley South railway station
  
  BULLET::::- Mallaig railway station
  
  BULLET::::- Germany
   BULLET::::- In 1946 it appeared in "A Collection of Jokes and Anecdotes" by Bennett Cerf: "A visitor to “a small town near Charleston” is struck by the number of children in that village and thinks to ask the waiter at his hotel about it. The obliging server takes the traveler to see the train tracks at the east end of town where the expresses to Miami come barreling through. “It’s this way,” he explained. “That damned train rushes by here every morning at seven o’clock. It’s too early to get out of bed, and too late to go back to sleep.”"
   Noise from transportation is typically emitted by machinery (e.g. the engine or exhaust) and aerodynamic noise (see aerodynamics and aircraft noise) caused by the compression and friction in the air around the vessel during motion. Environmental noise from the railway specifically is variable depending on the speed and quality of the tracks used for transportation.
   BULLET::::- The New York City-area Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North, and New Jersey Transit use signs that read "Watch the gap" on trains and platforms. Because of reports of people falling through the gap, a warning is now played at every station, plus automated announcements on board the trains of all three railroads.
   Section::::Response.
  
  Dispatchers told residents to close doors and windows, boil water, and cover their faces with wet cloths to counteract the ammonia.
   As director of the Holy Childhood Association, Willms resided in the rectory of St. Stanislaus Church. A Polish prelate was visiting from Rome one Sunday, and had decided to give a sermon. A locomotive, however, arrived on the tracks outside the church and began to shift its cars back and forward, completely drowning out the speaker's words. Willms left the church immediately and stood on the tracks, refusing to let the engineer pass with the noisy train until the sermon was finished.
   BULLET::::- "Bashing" used on its own is a general term for a railway enthusiast's trip, excursion or holiday involving train travel and observation.
   Section::::History.:Electrification.
   Section::::Relay engines.
  
  Sometimes a terminal station has no run-round loops, the absence of which is overcome by coupling a relay engine to the rear to power the next out bound trip. The original engine of the arriving train shunts to the relay engine siding where it awaits the arrival of the second train, and so on. Examples in steam days include Fenchurch Street and Kingsgrove.
   BULLET::::- Conductor James Lowell Garrison, aged 47, was employed as a brakeman by the ICG on 1 August 1950, being promoted to conductor on 15 December 1958. The only restriction he had was to wear glasses all the time when he was on duty.
  
  BULLET::::- Engineer John Joseph Taksas, aged 65, was employed as a fireman by the ICG on 21 January 1940, being promoted to engineer on 27 January 1949. The only restriction he had was to wear glasses all the time when he was on duty.
   BULLET::::- Safety : In an accident, the locomotive may act as a buffer zone to the rest of the train. Depending on the obstacle encountered on the rail line, the heavier mass of a locomotive is less likely to deviate from its normal course. In the event of fire, it might be safer, for example, with diesel locomotives.
  
  BULLET::::- Noise : A single source of tractive power (i.e., motors in one place), is quieter than multiple operational power units, where one or more motors are located under every carriage. The noise problem is particularly noticeable in diesel multiple units.
   Fear of trains
  
  The fear of trains is anxiety and fear associated with trains, railways, and railway travel.
  
  Section::::Psychoanalysis.
   Railroad activity is subject to federal regulations. Most communities do not attempt to regulate train sound. The level of train horns permitted by the Federal Railroad Administration sufficiently high that community impact occurs. One method to alleviate this sound is to have a community establish a quiet zone where the rail crossings meet federal safety standards so that horn use is not needed.
  
  Section::::Local noise ordinances in U.S. and Europe.:Ordinance provisions for moving vehicles in the United States.:Recreational off-road vehicles.
   BULLET::::- In 2012, 14-year-old Cameron Vennard was killed by an Amtrak train in Kirkwood, Missouri, on a stretch that had been a popular shortcut to downtown.
  
  BULLET::::- On January 15, 2014, a pedestrian, Danyelle Lynn Anderson, was struck and killed by a commuter train as she walked on the Manassas Line near Burke in Fairfax County, Virginia.
  
  BULLET::::- On February 26, 2014, a pedestrian, 15-year-old Jack Chen, was struck and killed by a commuter train as he walked on the Manassas Line near Fairfax Station, Virginia in Fairfax County.
   Section::::Operations.:Quiet Zone.
  