So What Does The Momentum Of A Moving Train Really Feel Like?

I just love this photo

Mass times velocity. It’s a fairly straight forward equation. The equation has much a much different result when the train we are talking about is a real train and not a weightless ghost train.

Authorities say a man who was waiting with several friends for a “ghost train” from a North Carolina legend was killed when a real train came down the tracks.

Really? Because the ground shaking and the rumbling in your chest didn’t signal that you might want to get out of the way?

Iredell County Sheriff Phil Redmond says 29-year-old Christopher Kaiser of Charlotte was killed about 2:45 a.m. Friday as he waited with friends at a railroad trestle. Redmond says witnesses said about 12 people were on the trestle hoping to see a ghost train when the real train rounded a bend. Everyone but Kaiser was able to clear the tracks at the end of the trestle. The train struck Kaiser, who was thrown into a ravine.

That’s even dumber than waiting for a ghost train itself. You were waiting on a trestle – which supported active train tracks - with no exit.

The legend developed from a train wreck on Aug. 27, 1891, that killed about two dozen people and injured many others. Folklore Web sites claim the accident can be heard on each anniversary.

119 years to easily test the ridiculous theory and yet, all we still have is a “claim” and now a dead guy. Nice.