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[quote user="Murphy Siding"] [quote user="Bucyrus"]Surely you jest[/quote]     Well, no.  One of our sons is left-handed.  He's also left-footed.  If he were getting on or off a train, he'd lead with his left foot no matter which way the train was headed.  I'm right-handed, and also right-footed.  I'd lead with my right foot, no matter which way the train was headed.     Maybe that's the reason that the description involves leading and trailing foot?  If I'm facing a stopped train, and tried to step up left foot first,  I'd probably end up on the ground. [/quote] Okay I see what you mean.  But you are talking about a stationary train where getting on and off is like climbing or descending a stationary set of stairs. Even this is a little confusing because you descend the steps of a passenger car facing down the steps, whereas you descend the steps of a locomotive facing the opposite direction of your travel.  In other words, you face the locomotive and descend the steps backwards.  For stationary steps of a passenger train, either going up or down, I would start with my right foot because I am right-handed, and I assume right-footed too, although I never thought about my footedness much.  I guess I would lead with my right foot in starting a descent of locomotive steps too, although I would be descending backwards.  A left-footed person would lead these moves with their left foot. But the issue of this thread topic is the leaving the steps of a moving engine or stirrup of a moving car, and stepping onto the ground; and of stepping onto the steps of a moving engine or stirrup of a moving car, from the ground.  For those moves, you lead with one foot or the other, depending on train travel direction in relation to which side of the track you are on.  It makes no difference whether you are right or left footed.
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