when I was little I was insanely afraid of trains. I remember crying on the bus in my seat alone, on a field trip because we had to wait for a train to go by before we crossed the tracks. Nobody noticed either, but I'm glad they didn't. Now I just feel a bit nervous around them...
I'm still freaked out by trains. When I was a kid I was afraid there would be a train that went forever, all the way around the world. I used to have nightmares of being near railroad tracks.