TRAIN WRECK
By Trevor Davis
7-4-2019


Imagine you are in a helicopter flying high over a town. You observe the scene from a special perspective that gives you a rare unknown advantage over what is below in normal life.

You see the cars driving as people go here and there. You see the fields blowing in the wind. The colors of the houses, cars, flowers and trees are rather beautiful.

You can see off from the distance a fast moving train barreling down the tracks from the other end of the horizon. You look at it with increasing attention as it gets closer and closer. Hmm, you wonder about the people on it. Men, women, children, all different ages you guess. You picture them on board looking out the windows as the scenery bustles by as they speed down the narrow tracks. You imagine them talking, playing on their phones, sleeping and even day dreaming as the train ride goes on.

But oh, then you notice off in the other direction the train tracks come to an end. You think, 'don't they realize the tracks lead to a dead end?' Even more alarming, you see that the tracks lead to the edge of a deep cliff with the bottom far below.

Your heart races and concede in your mind that this train is in deep trouble if they do not stop. Will they?, you fearfully wonder. Certainly someone will warn them you think.

But little do you know, the engineer of the train was an impostor. He was not authorized to captain the train at all. No, the crazed man was not one to follow rules and regulations but had an agenda to create disaster. The people thought they were just going from one place to another. But no. They were wrong.

You see the train as it seems to increase speed as it passes below you. Then it rushes past onward to the edge of the cliff where the rail road tracks end. Before you could do a thing, there the train went air bound streaming through the sky as a wingless plane. The cars disengage themselves as they teeter and totter down from the sky. Bouncing off the hillside, you see fire, smoke with pieces of metal flying through the air.

What a disaster. Hundreds of people to die this way. Many injured no doubt. For what? It is a train wreck...