They have to live with the results of hitting those people. My grandfather was an engineer for 52 years and said he lost track of the body count.
Freight train engineer question
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And that is one of the reasons they became "old school".
But I do love a steam engine.
As a lad in England, me mum and I would often walk to the railway station with a sack lunch to watch the 'puffer bellies'.
Lovely memories.
Lovely memories.
ParadiseRoad
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[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTD9DriKarA[/ame]
In my early teens I would go to the raliway station whenever I could just to watch them.
The Diesels don't appeal that much to me.
76Y40
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Guess they only have to control speed and braking. Never saw a steering wheel in a train cab
If you believe the newspaper accounts you might think the engines were veering off the tracks left and right in pursuit of pedestrians and cars.
ParadiseRoad
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...if you want see what engineers go through...
...seen from someones front porch...
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRjg5Fw0LBk[/ame]
...seen from someones front porch...
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRjg5Fw0LBk[/ame]
During my cop days, I had to respond to way too many car/train wrecks. There weren't many open casket funerals. 
When I lived in Vancouver Washington there was a wreck similar to the one in the video except the semi was hauling a scraper on a lowboy trailer and it high centered on the tracks. Train hit it. Train vs big scraper and the train of course won. Must have been one of the all time THUDS though.
