Train comes in for repairs covered in red mush
[ranking: 20]
I was working at a BNSF railway in Stockton, CA maintaining the cranes that pull cars off the tracks when a freight engine rolled in with the front end a little caved in, covered in red.
The entire front end was covered in what appeared to be red bloody chunks a paste leftover from rolling through maybe a herd of cattle, or a hoard of zombies... I didn't know what to think. I felt my stomach churn, and my coworker turned green and heaved a bit.
I asked the foreman what happened, he told me some teenager jumped out in front of it. Later, I grew a pair and walked up to it as these folks were cleaning it without any signs of being affected by the sight. Turns out the train hit a stalled fiberglass trailer filled with tomatoes that was headed to the Hunts cannery in Oakdale.
Japanese government charges the families of people who commit suicide on the tracks
[ranking: 18]
There is a routine here in Tokyo to deal with people on the rails. The government even charges a fee to the family of suicidal people, given that they interrupted the traffic.
Train runs over corpse that was just hit by a previous train
[ranking: 8]
I think finding a body that was hit by a previous train might have been the creepiest. I've hit a few cars and people before but I never had to go back and look (that's the conductor's job). The person we found wasn't really identifiable as a human being, just a pile of meat.
What gave it away were the scraps of clothing mixed into the pile.
Man sees ghost of crash victim walking away from the derailment
[ranking: 2]
My dad, who is a no-nonsense man, came home one night after a derailment and was white as a sheet. He told my mom he met a man walking away from the derailment, which was in the middle of the woods. He didn't think it was too weird, because some people check out wrecks and derailments.
Anyway, my dad gets to the derailment. The cause of the derailment was a truck had been hit, and then pushed by the engine. Now, none of this is weird until my dad sees the deceased man in the truck... it looked like a beat up version of the man he saw on the way to the derailment.
Woman attempts suicide by jumping in front of train with her dog
[ranking: 14]
My uncle was a conductor on a train that hit a woman committing suicide that decided to take her dog with her. She lived, the dog didn't.
Hobo seeks shelter in an empty train car, only to be smothered to death by grains
[ranking: 9]
A hobo was found dead in a hooper car (the kind that are open and typically hold grain). They figured, since it was the summer, he wanted more air circulation, and hopped in that one. Well, the car was filled and no one really looks in it while doing so. The body wasn't discovered until the car was unloaded.
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