A man posing for a photo in front of a moving train in Oregon on
Saturday was struck and killed by another train that he didn’t notice heading
in the other direction, police say.
The man was traveling
on a Tacoma-to-Portland road trip with a woman when they stopped at train
tracks along the Kalama River to smoke and take pictures, police told The
Oregonian.
When a northbound train
passed the area, the man “walked out between the northbound and southbound set
of train tracks to pose for pictures as the train passed by him,” Cowlitz
County Sheriff’s Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig said.
The two didn’t realize
another Amtrak train was approaching in the southbound tracks and the man was
struck and killed while posing for a photo, Rosenzweig added.
The man – whose
identity is being withheld until his family is notified – died at the scene
while the woman was unharmed, The Oregonian reports.
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