Famous American Steam Engine UP 844 Strikes and Kills Pedestrian in CO - Sensationalist Headlines

Person struck, killed by Cheyenne Frontier Days train near Hende..

Something tells me it won’t be an “ambassador of goodwill” for much longer.

Honestly how does one get hit by a train they are photographing?

Trains are terrifying. They can seriously sneak up on you out of the blue despite being massive, hulking behemoths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmF7_bNHa0

Looks like it was at a road crossing, so likely the person was sucked under the wheels by the speed of the train whizzing by from trying to get way too close-up. At speed, the wind current would have knocked them off- balance and they clearly were not able to safely correct their stance in time.

The guy in the video above was EXTREMELY close to the train, somehow I doubt that is what happened.

There's a video of the accident itself, from the looks of it they were practically standing on top of the outer edges of the sleepers as it came through. While it should be common knowledge that trains extend much past the margins of the rails themselves, but it probably wasn't as obvious while looking through the screen of a phone. 844 is probably one of the most iconic excursion locomotives I can think of, it's awful to see it in such a tragically avoidable accident.

Allegedly it was a grandma taking video for her grandson. To a lot of people it's probably obvious that you don't stand on the ties or even on the ballast when a train is approaching, but for an elderly lady who has minimal railroad experience it probably isn't obvious at all. Especially when you see people doing the same thing on the adjacent track. I feel bad for everyone involved here. Obviously the family of the lady, the bystanders (especially all the kids who were watching) and the train crew. Nobody really talks much about the train crew but anyone who's hit someone carries that with them for the rest of their life.

The way this is worded makes it come across more like a beloved family pet killed someone on the street rather than someone was standing too close to the train.

its vicious, put it down

No way was the railroad at fault. Technically being that close to the rails is trespassing on railroad property, and even if it wasn't, it takes about three to five miles to stop something like that at moderate to high speed. Sad truth is pedestrian hits happen somewhat frequently. i heard from an old railroader one time that during training they were told that if they worked their whole life on the rails they could expect to hit up to about 5 people during their career. Drunk people staggering down lines, cars trying to beat the crossing and most frequently, suicide by train. The only reason this is headlining is because it's 844. I feel sorry for the train crew most of all though. That's a hell of a cleanup job, and odds are every time they go into the guts to work on something like lubricator lines, something nasty is going to turn up now and again in there. Plus the loco's probably going to be down for a while for the investigation, which for a big expensive to operate machine with a ticking time limit on the mandatory boiler service is a pretty big deal.

Video for those curious, there's no gore or anything like that. Women is standing practically on top of the tracks

What a fucking dumbass. Jesus christ.

Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't stand practically on top of the train tracks with our back to them while video taping another train. Just, y'know, a passing thought.

Wide angle shots make things look farther away than they are, woman ate the train because from her perspective, she wasn't in any danger. What a fool. I know, who the fuck enables FACEBOOK chat for LiveLeak?

(Last bit) I think you're conflating two incidents. In 2000 UP 6936 hit a dump truck, killing a crew member in the nose section and the driver of the truck, and then in 2007 the engine hit another train.