A friend of mine got run over by a train once. He'd gone (drunkenly) down onto the tracks to try and nick a sign, when he heard the train coming. Knowing he couldn't get back up in time, he decided to lie down between the tracks and let it pass harmlessly over him.
This would have worked OK except that in the gap between each pair of carriages there was a tremendous updraft, which sucked him up off the ground only to be then hit by the second carriage's front axle. At speed, this might have produced a rattling noise of the kind you describe.
(He survived, although breaking lots of bones and so on.)
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Date: 2013-07-11 01:13 pm (UTC)This would have worked OK except that in the gap between each pair of carriages there was a tremendous updraft, which sucked him up off the ground only to be then hit by the second carriage's front axle. At speed, this might have produced a rattling noise of the kind you describe.
(He survived, although breaking lots of bones and so on.)