Sometimes, when a train bears down on a person who has gotten onto the rails, his eyes meet the engineer’s just before impact.
“We have fatalities where people just lay themselves on the tracks, and they could be possibly staring right up at you,” said Anthony Bottalico, 58, a union official who began working as a conductor 38 years ago.
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