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Force of a train?

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Title says it all.
How much does the average travelling modern train yield? What durability would someone getting hit by a train have?
And would there be a difference if they get hit by the metal part vs they get hit by the glass part?
 
From just a few quick google searches, average mass of a train car is about 30 tons or 27215.5 kg. Average speed is about 125 mph or 55.88 m/s. Using KE that gives Wall level results (42491211.7916 J).

As for someone getting hit, inverse square law. Average width of a train car is about 2.84 to 2.9 m wide, so an average of 2.87 m. Average height of a train car is about 3.3 to 3.56 m tall, so an average of 3.43 m. That gives us an area of 9.8441 m^2. Average CA of a human is .68 m^2. 42491211.7916 J in tons is 0.010155643353632886 tons. (0.010155643353632886/9.8441)*.68=0.00070152045 tons or 2935161.5628 J (Wall level)

Idk about the getting hit by the metal or getting hit by the glass part in terms of actual force
 
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