Comments by "SepherStar" (@SepherStar) on "The Dangers of Taking Photos on Train Tracks" video.

  1. I used to live in a town where you could hear the train coming anywhere in the city, except near the tracks. It's something to do with the way the sound propagates. They can really sneak up on you.
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  2. +GadgetGavinGaming The sound doesn't travel in front of them as well. They can be very quiet coming up on you.
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  3. I was on one of the commuter trains once and they had to hit the air brakes because a guy walking in the direction we were travelling didn't realize the train was coming and jumped on the tracks to walk. The engineer had two choices. The horn or the brakes. Lucky for the guy he hit the brakes. You wouldn't think a train could slow that fast so smoothly but we did and it wouldn't have been good enough if the guy didn't realize when he did that he was about to be hit by a train, and use that split second the engineer bought him to jump out of the way.
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  4. +Kevin Garcia At 70 mph it's traveling 102.6 feet per second. I've been in instances where I was near a train track and I couldn't hear the train until it was less than 100 feet away. Also, despite being able to hear the horn throughout most of the city, you couldn't hear it on the tracks in front of the train until it was right up on you, and it was barely audible inside of the train.
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