I have several questions about this story. A man miraculously survived after falling to asleep on the railroad tracks and getting struck by the train. Why did the man go asleep on the railroad tracks? How did he survive? Was he unscathed? Well, I can answer the latter of these questions. The man indeed survived, but he was not unscathed. Rescue crews worked for almost two hours to free his left hand. It got entangled in the axle, which frankly sounds painful.