Every 100 minutes a vehicle or pedestrian is struck by a train.
More people die in highway-rail crashes each year than in commercial airline crashes.
A motorist is 40-times more likely to die in a crash involving a train than in a collision involving another motor vehicle. Over 50 percent of crashes occur where active warning devices are present. The romance of the railroad has been with us for over 100-years. From the steam engines of Casey Jones to the computerized bullet trains of Japan, our fascination with trains has spanned generations and continents. When man could only dream of flying, the railroads were moving cargo and people from coast to coast.