The place where I work is about 30 ft away from the tracks and my office is about 80 and I can feel it everytime one comes down the tracks.
I lived in some apartments that were pretty close to railroad tracks last school year and there's no way anyone couldn't feel a train coming down the tracks.
I don't think it was a full size regular train. It was something with a snow plow in the front of it. Anyways, she was text messaging at the time - just sent one to her mom like a minute before- on her way to her moms office when she was hit. My co-workers daughter goes there so I'll find out the scoop. sounds sad, not suicidal.