Quote Originally Posted by RogerThat99 View Post
I think he meant laying as close as you can on the outside the rails, not in the middle.

I heard a story that a guy was doing that and the train was dragging a cable and killed the guy...damned near cut him in half. Could be Urban Legend though.
Probably true. Trains have all manner of shit dragging along side or falling off of them. I won't even pull up close to a crossing when the gates come down. I worked with a guy that had his face cut pretty bad by some banding hanging off while he was bending over to pull his switch key out of a lock, that train was only going 10mph.