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best way is to find a sub station and wait for train there just driving thru (so at fast speed)
Even that is fraught with possible issues. I considered this very seriously and planned to do it. Visited tracks (which in itself is hard enough depending where you live) and looked into the intricacies of doing it. The tracks are approximately 5 inches. They vary but 5 inches is a good general measure. Imagine you neck on a 5 inch plate. That's quite a large portrion of most people's neck. Then you have to get to that track quickly enough to avoid the train slowing down, timing it just right. With the horn most likely blaring and the noise of the train itself you have to position yourself just right and remove your hands from the tracks so you don't flinch as it takes them off. Now, assuming you manage to lay just right in the ditched ground around the track and everything is just right, the train wheel will be sinched over the track in order to grip either side of it and stay attached. This means that your neck will be both crushed, smeared and sliced. It's not like a guillotine blade. It's almost certainly going to kill you IF you do it right but doing it right is harder than it appears and the outcome of doing it right may not be as painless as it first appears. I don't think I trust not tripping over and putting my arms under the train or getting caught by track security.
Well, first I'd say that the entire idea of death by train wouldn't rank as one of the "painless" methods of CTB, whether you jumped out in front of the train, or whether you placed your neck on the tracks. If you want painless, try a different method. Second, I don't think one needs to fret too much about having their neck "smeared", as a person's neck isn't going to affect one iota the train's ability to stay on the track. It's going to roll right over you as if nothing was there. You'd have to jump out from the periphery of the tracks at the right time, perhaps from some nearby vegetation. I don't know where you would plan on doing something like this, but I'd choose a remote area of tracks, not in a rail yard or train station or something like that. I think whether someone would be able to go through with a method like this all boils down to SI, as many a method does. If you don't trust yourself enough to be able to go through with something like this, as you have stated that you don't trust yourself and would possibly get up at the last minute and wind end up getting your arms pulled under the train, I'd suggest you don't try it. For someone who could go through with this method, if you were able to lay there with your neck on the tracks, and an approaching train did run over you, it's really "lights out". Painless? Probably not.
OK, I hear you. The biggest thing you'd have to deal with is the SI. I still say if you could get your neck anywhere even close to laying on a track before the train reaches you, it's lights out.
