I love this movie, but something bothers me. Ray Brower was picking blueberries and got hit by the train. He didn't hear
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willydoe71 — 10 years ago(November 20, 2015 01:25 AM)
If anything is a plothole in the story, it would be how did the engineer not know he hit someone. Trains will stop after they hit someone, not just keep going leaving the body to be discovered whenever. I suppose it's possible back in those days the engineer could get away with not paying attention. Maybe reading a newspaper or something.
Well for starters, it could have been night time when he hit him. Also, back in those days, it wasn't too uncommon for train engineers to be drinking while on the job. My uncle used to be an engineer as well. They had to build an overpass over one of the tracks because back in those days, he and his buddies would be piss drunk and stop the trains across the road, blocking all traffic. -
wilft1 — 10 years ago(April 09, 2015 09:52 AM)
Ray Brower went to the Prometheus school of running away from things i.e. running in a straight line away from whats coming straight at you instead of running sideways away from it
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BingoFlip20943 — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 08:44 PM)
Maybe this isn't how it was in the 50s, but trains can be extremely quiet, especially if they're running with the engine in back. I grew up near train tracks, and a friend and I once didn't hear a train until it was under us when we were climbing a chain link fence on a bridge. It was almost completely silent and scared the beep out of us.
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willowtara — 10 years ago(June 14, 2015 01:37 PM)
I lived next to train tracks for years. Trains do not constantly blow their horns, usually just when the trains are approaching a crossing or they see something on the tracks.
Ray could have been very tired or had dosed off and didn't hear it. We'll never know -
daughterofolaf — 10 years ago(July 10, 2015 09:33 PM)
Oddly this type of thing has happened in real life a number of times. It sounds incredibly bizarre but it's not unrealistic. There have been at least two stories like this in the media in Southern California in the last year or so. Freakin' weird and one could categorize it as stupid but it happens.
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Merry-Go-Girl — 10 years ago(August 11, 2015 08:05 AM)
That part of the track ran though a forested area, it's not crazy to think that an approaching train would also sound like wind passing through branches. Also, wasn't there a body of water like 15 feet away? Plenty of things to distract from or disguise the sound.
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anonymous_guy — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 07:55 AM)
this is not far fetched at all. this is something that actually happens in real life. i personally know a guy that got hit by a train when he was kid and nearly died
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selenedm999 — 9 years ago(November 06, 2016 01:18 AM)
In the book, he's described as not being all that banged up, either. It's entirely possible he was trying to get away from the train and hit his head or something.
It's also hinted at that there is SOMETHING ELSE IN THE WOODS, and maybe that's what got him! It is, after all, a Stephen King story!
