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The question was asked on the Casey Anthony thread.
Yes I have. I was almost in it. I was sitting at a crossing with two tracks, waiting for the train to get through, getting kind of mesmerized by the cars going by in a blur. The train was on the far track, going from my right to my left. At some point I saw a set of train wheels rolling along by themselves as if they were on the near track. I thought, "Hmm, that's odd." Then I saw a set of wheels go by tumbling end over end, then a car with no wheels, then more cars, then a huge cloud of dust and loud booming sounds off to my left and the cars slowed down and finally stopped. I realized those sets of train wheels were only about 10 feet away when they went by my '64 Plymouth Valiant at about 35 mph. They would have wiped it out. About 20 box cars had piled up side by side, the last one was about 10 yards to the left of my car. If the train hasn't stopped there would have been another two cars in the pile and I would have been in between the next two. I was in high school, on my way to take the SAT test.