"Police in Spartanburg, S.C., called it a miracle that a man, drunk and passed out, was uninjured when a freight train rolled over top of him on the rails."
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Journalism at its best! If the drunk was "on the rails" he surely would have been injured/killed.
Hot Water, you are correct. I didn't even catch that. lol. I should have said "men" instead of "man" due to the other guy walking on the rails with headphones.
The copy says the train was rolling on the rails, over the top of him.
Did you catch the frame of the dead guy with a toe tag that read "I raced a train and all I got was this lousy toe tag"? 
I think to most people, the definitions for "rail" and "track" are synonymous, or even swapped (e.g.: one track is often referred to as a "set of tracks" or otherwise referred to plurally, and I have heard/read instances where one track is referred to as a rail). It's yet another failed attempt at using railroad terminology--note that the engineer is once again referred to as a conductor at the beginning of the video.
Aaron
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