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[quote user="Murphy Siding"] [quote user="Bucyrus"] Therefore:  When alongside of a track, and facing the track in a direction perpendicular to the track;  If a train is passing from your left to your right;  Your left foot is the trailing foot.     This is because your left foot is nearest the direction opposite the travel of the train (just like a trailing unit is nearest to the rear of the train). [/quote] Doesn't it depend on whether you are left-footed, or right-footed?  (Seriously.)  If you are left-handed, you are generally left-footed as well, and walk leading with that foot.  Watch kids playing soccer.  You can quickly figure out which ones are left-handed.[/quote] Surely you jest.  Handedness does not enter into it.  But using the designation of a person’s left foot and right foot to describe getting on and off would be infinitely more clear than using the terms, trailing foot and leading foot.  Everybody knows their left foot from their right foot.  And it is independent of handedness.  But to accompany the designation of right foot / left foot, you need the train direction to be specified.     It is true that “trailing” and “leading” also automatically define the train direction, which is essential to describing the boarding / un-boarding procedure.  But the terminology needs a definition.  Otherwise it is gibberish.
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