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Visual Arts Teacher Killed While Taking Pictures Of An Approaching Train

December 11, 2012 at 10:48 am by  

Visual Arts Teacher Killed While Taking Pictures Of An Approaching TrainSACRAMENTO, CA — A popular visual arts teacher at St Francis High School was killed while taking pictures of an oncoming train.

Police said 52-year-old Kathy Carlisle was on train tracks near the campus of St Francis, taking pictures of an approaching train, when she was struck from behind by a train travelling in the opposite direction. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The president of St. Francis said the school canceled classes on Monday and organized a memorial service for Carlisle. They’re also providing grief counselors and allowing students to set up a memorial and posting a bulletin board for students who want to share memories or express their grief.

“We’re taking this opportunity to really reflect on the tremendous gift that she was to our community,” said Reid Brown. “She was so skilled and passionate in her work, and really had a gift. The girls understood that she had a gift to share with them.”

Carlisle, a married mother of three, taught 600 students at the all girl Catholic school since 2008. Students are posting about her passion for art, her love for the color orange, and how much she had touched their lives.

“You brought such a colorful spark to each of our lives and we love and miss you so much ms. Carlisle more than words can express,” one student wrote. “Mrs. Carlisle showed me how to convey the beauty in everything and everyone. She will be greatly missed,” tweeted another.

Carlisle was an award-winning photographer and well-known in the visual arts community, known for using painting and other forms of artistic expression to help students understand the horrors of the Holocaust.

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    • Rachel Ann

      Oh gosh how sad. Did she not hear the train behind her? Wtf? Oh and hey I’m FIRST!

    • JGo555

      I could say so many horrible/funny things but I’m just gonna go with: The trains make a CHOO CHOO sound.

    • http://twitter.com/vab423 Vicki B.

      This is why California students are at the bottom of the education ladder.

    • SkummyRummy

      Weird…how did she not hear or feel it?!? Damn trains n their silent but deadly attacks lol

    • Snickering x Hydra

      You know, it’s one thing for a teenager using a camera phone to get struck by a train and quite another for a photography teacher to get hit by one. You’d think she would have at least checked the timetables.

      Also, this isn’t the first photographer to die trying to get that perfect shot.

    • http://www.facebook.com/TristanChrist Tristan Christ

      I live in Sacramento and this is what happened. The teacher was taking pictures of a train leaving, when trains are in areas with people they honk their horn letting everyone around them know that they are in the area. The opposite train was coming around a corner approaching the teacher, what we think happened was that she heard the sounds of the oncoming train and thought it was the leaving train.

      A tragic mistake

    • laurablue87

      Dumb ass.

    • Sam

      Well, painting yourself all over the front of a train sure is a poignant way of reminding people of the horrors of the holocaust.

    • ViewerBeware

      Where was this at? What RT station or was it a UP train?

    • come_and_see

      Derp.

    • come_and_see

      Did she dance like a ballerina?

    • osteenq

      Send her next of kin her Darwin award. This is why you don’t stand on or too near to train tracks and then put your head up your ass.

    • Evan Oswald

      hey you aren’t suppose to be on the train tracks – even if you are an art professional. whatever THAT means.

    • Evan Oswald

      yes – i hope they don’t clean off the train and ruin her living work of art

    • lespacino

      I’ll bet she didn’t see that coming!

    • SayAunt

      That must have been one hell of a Kodak moment.

    • newstarshipsmell

      Sounds like the perfect shot railroaded her into taking an engine up the caboose. I wonder if better safety training could have prevented this tragic derailment of her students’ education. Hopefully the school can quickly find a replacement and get things back on track.

    • JohnQknowitall

      She sounds like she was a really wonderful person who added to society rather than subtract from it as most of the subjects of th articles on this site. Poor thing.

    • Sam

      “living”? Zombie art?

    • Wolf_of_Mars

      I’m sorry, but, this sounds like she got her photography education at the “Wile E. Coyote School of Fine Arts.”

    • Sam

      Huh. I wonder… Was it a silver bullet train that impaled her?

    • Guest

      How the fuck do you NOT hear a train coming? From either direction. @_@;

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=659951913 Alanah Lee

      Ooooh…. okay. Nevermind my comment. :S

    • Andyman

      LMAO! I saw what you did there. Here’s one for you:

      A man and a woman, who have never met before, find themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a transcontinental train.

      Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, the two are tired and fall asleep quickly – he in the upper bunk and she in the lower.

      At 1:00 AM, he leans over and gently wakes the woman saying, “Ma’am, I’m sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a secondblanket? I’m awfully cold.”

      “I have a better idea,” she replies. “Just for tonight, let’s pretend that we’re married.”

      “Wow! That’s a great idea!!” he exclaims.

      “Good,” she replies. “Get your own damn blanket!”

      After a moment of silence, he farted.

    • OutOfBubbleGum

      Do we train teachers to teach?

    • alphatroll

      Too late, her 3 kids disqualify her from a Darwin.

    • newstarshipsmell

      This.

      I felt bad calling the cops one time; I was at the local Metra station waiting for a ride into the city, and noticed some toddler hanging out with his/her grandpa on the tracks just west of the station. Just sitting/standing there, doing nothing. (This was a suburban Chicago location with frequent commuter and freight trains speeding through on a straightaway.) I had the station employee dial 911 and send a cruiser over; by the time the cop got there the two had wandered off. As I told the cop, I felt bad calling him out since I didn’t want to get the grandfather in trouble if he was paying attention to his surroundings and not placing the kid in danger, but he assured me that I made the right call, since in his own words “with old people and kids, you can’t always be sure who is watching over whom.” I hadn’t even considered that the grandpa might’ve been senile and it might’ve been the kid’s idea to walk down the tracks.

      Anyways, one simple action could’ve prevented this tragedy: having a second person present to be on the lookout for unseen dangers. Darwin material, indeed.

    • Chinchillazilla

      I got one.

      Two blondes are walking through the woods when they come upon some tracks. “Oh shit,” says the first one. “These are bear tracks, we’d better get out of here.” The other one laughs.

      “No, you dumbass, these are just deer tracks.”

      While they’re arguing, the train hits them.

    • Andyman

      Yeah when I googled for train wreck jokes I read that one too. Lol!

    • ViewerBeware

      I got the story. Turns out her husband works here with me, different department in another division,but this is a small organization. Her daughter still attends the same school, so this is going to be rougher than normal I suppose.

    • Evan Oswald

      she definitely added to the front of that train

    • BEastDuo

      What a loss. I wish she had used logic rather than the muse. Now her children will grow up without a mother, and her students without her insight. A shame.

    • Heather_Habilatory

      Seriously, people. Do we have to have this conversation AGAIN?!

    • http://www.facebook.com/scottymac247 Scott McAllister

      that a good teacher excersise to go with your students and play on railroad tracks

    • captaingrumpy

      My Arts teacher at school (1962) wore no bra and always a soft T Shirt and a dress that went under the boobs. When she talked to you ,it was always in front and close enough to touch nipples. At 14 I was lost.

    • Barrayaran
    • http://twitter.com/vab423 Vicki B.
    • G.I.R.L.

      LOL brava.

    • G.I.R.L.

      lol quit it! These comments are killing me!