As a kid bike rider who lived near a train track.. you can tell they're coming long before they arrive, even if they don't whistle. The tracks make a sound, there's a rumbling of the wheels going down the track... Even if you had headphones in and turned up so loud you couldn't hear cars coming (which would be unsafe and very stupid) it would be an extremely low chance you'd be on the track long enough to be hit. The crossbeams under the tracks are too bumpy to make the path a good biking trail, and even then you'd have an additional 50% chance you'd see the train coming.

As a kid bike rider who lived near a train track.. you can tell they're coming long before they arrive, even if they don't whistle. The tracks make a sound, there's a rumbling of the wheels going down the track.. Even if you had headphones in and turned up so loud you couldn't hear cars coming (which would be unsafe and very stupid) it would be an extremely low chance you'd be on the track long enough to be hit. The crossbeams under the tracks are too bumpy to make the path a good biking trail, and even then you'd have an additional 50% chance you'd see the train coming.

As a kid bike rider who lived near a train track.. you can tell they're come long before they arrive, even if they don't whistle. The tracks make a sound, there's a rumbling of the wheels going down the track.. Even if you had headphones in and turned up so loud you couldn't hear cars coming (which would be unsafe and very stupid) it would be an extremely low chance you'd be on the track long enough to be hit. The crossbeams under the tracks are too bumpy to make the path a good biking trail, and even then you'd have an additional 50% chance you'd see the train coming.