Don't try this at home

[cpickle]

Central Salem [Oregon] was cut in half by a stalled train during the lunch-hour rush Tuesday. But unlike many similar incidents, nobody died on the tracks this day...

rest of the story (http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=61161)

[Dick Quickwood]

whew, i was just about to stand in front of one of the trains that goes through my house