Several comments were made to the effect that the Central Avenue derailment in New Orleans gave some food for thought about standing too close to moving traffic.
When I was a young man (14) shooting my first track side photos, a yard clerk approached me rather directly with a black steel band in his hand. He made a movement across his throat, and told me I would never see the band of steel that would decapitate me!
Now he may have been a little "over the top." But he made his point. On more than one occasion I can recall dunnage and junk hanging out of box car doors.
I would encourage you to look at the video in one of my blog articles, taken by a young man in Brazil. This would give a BNSF Agent a heart attack. It is the first video in the article:
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Robert in Port Townsend.