Whoa.... Thank you Mama2AFTIV,
I shudder to think what happened and I remember in one of the articles that it said that the snowplow's reach was about 16 inches... that would make it approximately 1 foot and a half to either of the sides when the snowplow was attached to the train.
My mom used to tell me to stay off the tracks not only that because the rocks can spin out and hit me or somebody much like when on the road and you see a Mack 18 wheeler truck and one of the rocks acts like a slingshot under the truck's tires and shatters the windsheild.
It is not worth to be on the tracks or besides the tracks at all, not even for a mintune or a few seconds.
Avoid tracks at all costs.
An added incentive to stay off the tracks is that there are rattlesnakes that like the hot sun warming the rocks and we can't hear the death rattle of an angry rattlesnake too either, even if our hearing aids pick up the noise but by then it will be too late. You are bitten and start to go into pain searing agony.
God Bless Tara and her family in your prayers during this difficult time.
Pray that in the future there will be less accidents and more lives will be saved somehow....
