Choo-choo's and Dead things

You'd be surprised at the carnage caused by Railroads, not only the two legged kind, but the four legged kind as well.
Animals don't know that that thing moving toward them at 70 mph, and bigger than a house will kill them, and it frequently does. We squished a puppy feeding on a dead antelope carcass, we whistled, flashed the lights, etc., and it looked up right before we heard the "thump"... Nothing we could do.
Unfortunately, it has to be viewed as Darwinism, if you're not smart enough to move out of the way, then you die. Trains can neither swerve nor stop in time, so you, as the Engineer, hope that a chunk doesn't come through the windshield or spatters the window so that you can't see. There aren't any wiper sprayers on locomotives and turning on the wipers just smears the blood and guts all over the place.
You just hold your nose and dinner, peer through the chunks and keep on keeping on.
Nice thing about steamers, most of the time the cab is far enough back so nothing gets on it.
Nobody likes to hit them, but it happens, just like cats, birds, dogs, etc. falling into inanimate objects like stacks, wells, mine shafts, chimneys, and other places where they shouldn't be. Death is the last great act of life. Sometimes it's glorious, sometimes it's cruel, but its' still life and as we know it and for all of the pious platitudes, it isn't going to change any time soon.
Just hope that they had a good life up to their last great act of ill fortune.
Rick