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That definitely makes sense. I was also struck by the assurances the FRA guy gave us that a car on the tracks moving at 1 MPH makes no sound and can certainly be lethal. That's why they taught us to always walk 10 ft. down the track before crossing behind a car. What really disgusted me, and I'll blow-off some steam here about it even though this happened over 6 yrs ago, was one of the three salaried employees of the RR who is/was the yard master for the RR and who also had the biggest mouth on the RR too (a chronic blowhard) was witnessed by several of us volunteers doing two reeeeally dangerous things in one day: 1.) He jumps in between two coach cars just as he KNEW the locomotive was pushing-in to couple-up and after he'd given the hand-signals to proceed with the move, just so he could move a brake hose (he missed being sandwiched by about 6 inches and the station master - a real nice guy with a lot of RR knowledge and common sense hollared at him about it), and, 2.) He gives the hand-signal to the engineer later to shove a cut of two coaches onto a siding then jumps around to the other side of the track not 2 ft. from the end of the last coach and missed getting knocked-over by inches again. This, mind you, is the same guy who bragged he'd break the knuckles of whoever moved a portable viewing stand closer to the edge of the platform than the line line on the concrete showed was the limit (I didn't move it but if I did I guarantee none of my knuckles would've been broken). A real nice guy to have as a "role model" for trainees.
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